Tom Engelhardt
In 2008, when the U.S. National Intelligence Council issued its latest report meant for the administration of newly elected President Barack Obama, it predicted that the planetâ€™s â€œsole superpowerâ€ would suffer a modest decline and a soft landing fifteen years hence.,In his new book ,The United States of Fear,, Tom Engelhardt makes clear that Americans should don their crash helmets and buckle their seat belts, because the United States is on the path to a major decline at a startling speed. Engelhardt offers a savage anatomy of how successive administrations in Washington took the â€œSoviet pathâ€â€”pouring American treasure into the military, war, and national securityâ€”and so helped drive their country off the nearest cliff.,This is the startling tale of how fear was profitably shot into the national bloodstream, how the countryâ€”gripped by terror fantasiesâ€”was locked down, and how a brain-dead Washington elite fiddled (and profited) while America quietly burned.,Think of it as the story of how the Cold War really ended, with the triumphalist â€œsole superpowerâ€ of 1991 heading slowly for the same exit through which the Soviet Union left the stage twenty years earlier.
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The United States of Fear