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Article: "The rudest man I ever met". (Books).(Cursed is the Peacemaker)(Book Review)
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- The National Interest
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- March 22, 2003
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John Boykin, Cursed is the Peacemaker (Belmont, GA: Applegate Press, 2002), 512 pp., $29.95.
JOHN BOYKIN, a writer and communications consultant in San Francisco, has written a clear, detailed and well-organized tribute to one of the Foreign Service's heroes, Philip Habib. Boykin's tale of how Habib dislodged PLO fighters from war-torn Beirut conveys the excitement of a novel, but without distorting what was a most portentous reality. The extraction of the PLO from Lebanon could have turned into a massacre of the PLO by the Israeli Defense Forces and the Phalange militia, and it could have provoked a wider conflict involving Syria. Instead, thanks to Habib's ...