Kinzer has written several non-fiction books about Turkey, Central America, Iran, the US overthrow of foreign governments from the late 19th century to the present and, most recently, about Rwanda's recovery from genocide.
He has spoken out widely against a potential U.S. attack on Iran, warning that it would destroy the pro-US sentiment that has become widespread among the Iranian populace under the repressive Islamic regime. He is also a fierce opponent of US foreign policy toward Latin America.
Americans usually elect leaders.
I think this biggest factor in our refusal to embrace war is the regime proposing it. This “no” shows how much we trust 0.
I don’t think that we as Americans embrace war so much as we accept it when the cause is right. IMHO
Americans don’t embrace war, they resolve to do the right thing when necessary. Muslims embrace war, nay they revel in the carnage and bloodshed.
There are consequences when one lied about Benghazi.
Wrong Steven.
We embrace it when someone mucks with us.
“Americans Usually Embrace War”
Not when the president keeps jumping in on the side of people who want to kill us.
Imagine FDR going to war on the side of the Japs on Dec. 8, 1941.
That’s what Clinton did in Serbia.
That’s what Obama did in Libya and Egypt.
That’s what Obama wants to do in Syria.
That’s because be have a Muslim-Soviet-loving asshat in charge. Shall we say “red diaper doper baby?
"Citizens concerned about foreign affairs must read this book. Stephen Kinzer's crisp and thoughtful Overthrow undermines the myth of national innocence. Quite the contrary: history shows the United States as an interventionist busybody directed at regime change. We deposed fourteen foreign governments in hardly more than a century, some for good reasons, more for bad reasons, with most dubious long-term consequences."
--Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
"Stephen Kinzer has a grim message for those critics of the Iraqi war who believe George W. Bush to be America's most misguided, uninformed, and reckless president. Bush has had plenty of company in the past century--presidents who believe that America, as Kinzer tells us, has the right to wage war wherever it deems war necessary."
--Seymour M. Hersh
"Stephen Kinzer's book is a jewel. After reading Overthrow, no American -- not even President Bush -- should any longer wonder 'why they hate us.' Overthrow is a narrative of all the times we've overthrown a foreign government in order to put in power puppets that are obedient to us. It is a tale of imperialism American-style, usually in the service of corporate interests, and as Kinzer points out, 'No nation in modern history has done this so often, in so many places so far from its own shores.' "
--Chalmers Johnson
Americans haven’t stopped supporting war, they’ve just become apathetic as to the reasons why politicians want to send their soldiers off to die.
This is usually just before a country balkanizes.
We don’t want to follow this leader in a BS war. Even his base refuses.
Three more long years of Obama’s bull shit ..........
No.
Americans usually embrace just and sensible wars.
Sorry, I don’t listen to Al Jazzeera, I’m more into folk and blues.
I think Bush and his crew not only soured Americans, but the whole world in joining us. Now the refrain is, “The last time you told us Saddam had WMDs, why should we trust you now?”
FU Stephen Kinzer and FU Al Jazeera.
Another leftist taking blood money to push muzzie agitprop.
We’ll probably support military intervention when Kinzer’s paymaster, the Emir of Qatar, is attacked and overthrown by one of his neighbors. The irony here is that Kinzer is now being paid by one of the autocrats he used to issue book-length rants against. Talk about selling out.
The “Commander of Chiefs” needs to keep his “Corpse men” home.
Americans are not interested in war. Americans are interested in defending ourselves.
That’s it.
BO and his ship of fools would do well to figure that out quick. But they won’t. And dwhat’s good for them is not usually what’s good for America.
Al Jazeera doesn’t have a clue , either, any more than their owner Gore the Puffy.
Gobbledigook --Americans simply realize WE WILL GAIN NOTHING in Syria. No land, no money, no influence, no prestige, not even any feeling of having righted some wrong.
Sometimes it appears to the American public that the interests of the country ARE involved, and sometimes it doesn't appear that way.
And this time? It really, really appears we'll gain nothing.
I don't think it goes much further than that.
Why not include the rest?
‘In Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change From Hawaii to Iraq, Kinzer critiques US foreign policy as overly interventionist.’
This guy is a leftist. Why am I not surprised to see the dateline is from AJ???
Why bother to post this drivel from known enemies of the US and Christians world wide???