Destroying World Order: U. S. Imperialism in the Middle East Before and after September 11th

For Boyle (international law, U. of Illinois-Champaign), the "War on Terror" is little more than a pretext for the expanded imperialist foreign policy of the United States, a policy characterized by a marked flouting of international law and a possibly inevitable slide into a Third World War. Beginning his narrative with a discussion of the U.S.- engineered coup d'état against the democratically elected Iranian leader Mohammed Mossadegh in 1959, he examines U.S. foreign policy towards the Middle…