Ted Galen Carpenter has given us, on the whole, an excellent and very useful book; but it contains a crucial flaw. The book, which collects essays and columns that Carpenter has written since 2002,
However much one may value Carpenter's book, then, it does not reflect a consistent noninterventionist stance.
Financial institutions will not only have mercantile "protection" from the federal government in terms of regulations; they will become social arms of that government.
Within a militarist community there is no freedom; there are only obedience and discipline.
Governments have made the war; only the peoples can make an unarmed peace.
Judge Denson has, in this excellent book, expertly solved a difficult problem. Wars are a principal means for the state to increase its power.
The neoconservatives are already in hot pursuit of Human Smoke. In the March 2008 issue of Commentary, David Pryce-Jones called it a "mendacious book."
In this instance, you can judge a book by its cover. The back of the dust jacket displays endorsements by two of our foremost warmongers. Both John McCain and Joseph Lieberman praise Kagan as an insightful analyst of foreign policy.
