The rise of international jihad and Western ultra-nationalism In the
Management of Savagery, Max Blumenthal excavates the real story behind
America's dealings with the world and shows how the extremist forces
that now threaten peace across the globe are the inevitable flowering of
America's imperial designs. Washington's secret funding of the
mujahedin provoked the Russian invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. With
guns and money, the United States has ever since sustained the
extremists, including Osama Bin Laden, who have become its enemies.
The Pentagon has trained and armed jihadist elements in Afghanistan,
Syria, and Libya; it has launched military interventions to change
regimes in the Middle East. In doing so, it created fertile ground for
the Islamic State and brought foreign conflicts home to American soil.
These failed wars abroad have made the United States more vulnerable to
both terrorism as well as native ultra-nationalism.
The Trump
presidency is the inevitable consequence of neoconservative imperialism
in the post-Cold War age. Trump's dealings in the Middle East are likely
only to exacerbate the situation.
The Management of Savagery - Max Blumenthal
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