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Article: Averting the clash.(American Raj: Liberation or Domination?: Resolving the Conflict Between the West and the Muslim World)(Book review)
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- The American Conservative
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- February 9, 2009
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[American Raj: Liberation or Domination?: Resolving the Conflict Between the West and the Muslim World, Eric Margolis, Key Porter]
IT WAS BOUND TO HAPPEN. In the same way that the movement against U.S. military intervention in Vietnam split, amoeba-like, during the drawdown of the war in Southeast Asia, the opposition to the war in Iraq seems to be disintegrating now that the presidential candidate who promised to withdraw from Mesopotamia--a position that is currently supported by 70 percent of the American people--has occupied the White House.
In fact, opponents of President George W. Bush's decision to oust Saddam Hussein and the ensuing American ...