"Dismantling the Empire" explores the subjects for which Johnson is now famous, from the origins of blowback to Barack Obama's Afghanistan conundrum, including our inept spies, our bad behavior in other countries, our ill-fought wars, and our capitulation to a military that has taken ever more control of the federal budget. There is, he proposes, only one way out: President Obama must begin to dismantle the empire before the Pentagon dismantles the American Dream. If we do not learn from the fates of past empires, he suggests, our decline and fall are foreordained. This is Johnson at his best: delivering both a warning and an urgent prescription for a remedy.
- ISBN10 0805093036
- ISBN13 9780805093032
- Publish Date 17 August 2010 (first published 23 July 2010)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 16 October 2012
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Henry Holt & Company Inc
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 224
- Language English