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Title: The Failure of America's Foreign Wars by Richard M. Ebeling, Jacob G. Hornberger ISBN: 0-9640447-6-5 Publisher: Future of Freedom Foundation Pub. Date: 01 December, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Thought Provocing
Comment: I bought this book just because Professor Ebeling was my economics professor, but I finally got to reading it and it has really made me think. They do a very good job of impeaching the accomplishments of each war since the Spanish American war -- particularly the Second World War which is seen as a great, heroic war. They ask an important question? Was the second world war nothing more that a war between competing forms of fascism? Was all of that blood shed so that the Soviet Union could dominate Eastern Europe? A lot of paper is wasted trying to prove that FDR had a conspiracy the cause pearl harbor for political support for the war. This reflects a trait of the book that is a trait of Prof. Ebeling's lectures: a little too much emotional rhetoric at times, but that is OK there is plenty of reason to make up for it. There is a logic to this collection of essays that will make you question whether US hegemony promotes freedom.

Rating: 5
Summary: A great survey of a century of wars and bad foreign policy
Comment: Starting with the Spanish-American War in 1898 and covering virtually every foreign conflict up to and including the Gulf War, this densely-packed volume of essays levels detailed and devastating criticisms against America's interventionist, and often brutal, foreign policies.

Culled mostly from the pages of "Freedom Daily", no punches are pulled as even "good" wars such as World War II are subjected to withering critiques: bashing the fire-bombing of Dresden, the use of atomic bombs against Japan and post-war repatriations.

This book is a must-have for your personal library if you are interested in defending a strict, non-interventionist foreign policy from a moral and practical standpoint. No other book covers such a range of conflicts so well.

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