Warmonger
How Clinton's Malign Foreign Policy Launched the Us Trajectory from Bush II to Biden
Jeremy Kuzmarov
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During the 2016 presidential election, many younger voters repudiated Hillary Clinton because of her husband's support for mass incarceration, banking deregulation and free-trade agreements that led many U.S. jobs to be shipped overseas. Warmonger: How Clinton's Malign Foreign Policy Launched the Trajectory from Bush II to Biden, shows that Clinton's foreign policy was just as bad as his domestic policy. Cultivating an image as a former anti-Vietnam War activist to win over the aging hippie set in his early years, as president, Clinton bombed six countries and, by the end of his first term, had committed U.S. troops to 25 separate military operations, compared to 17 in Ronald Reagan's two terms. Clinton further expanded America's covert empire of overseas surveillance outposts and spying and increased the budget for intelligence spending and the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a CIA offshoot which promoted regime change in foreign nations.
The latter was not surprising because, according to CIA operative Cord Meyer Jr., Clinton had been recruited into the CIA while a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, and as Governor of Arkansas in the 1980s he had allowed clandestine arms and drug flights to Nicaraguan counter-revolutionaries (Contras) backed by the CIA to be taken from Mena Airport in the western part of the state. Rather than being a time of tranquility when the U.S. failed to pay attention to the gathering storm of terrorism, as New York Times columnist David Brooks frames it, the Clinton presidency saw rising tensions among the U.S., China and Russia because of Clinton's malign foreign policies, and U.S. complicity in terrorist acts.
In so many ways, Clinton's presidency set the groundwork for the disasters that were to follow under Bush II, Obama, Trump, and Biden. It was Clinton--building off of Reagan--who first waged a War on Terror ridden with double standards, one that adopted terror tactics, including extraordinary rendition, bombing and the use of drones. It was Clinton who cried wolf about human rights abuses and the need to protect beleaguered peoples from genocide to justify military intervention in a post-Cold War age. And it was Clinton's administration that pressed for regime change in Iraq and raised public alarm about the mythic WMDs--all while relying on fancy new military technologies and private military contractors to distance US shady military interventions from the public to limit dissent.
The latter was not surprising because, according to CIA operative Cord Meyer Jr., Clinton had been recruited into the CIA while a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, and as Governor of Arkansas in the 1980s he had allowed clandestine arms and drug flights to Nicaraguan counter-revolutionaries (Contras) backed by the CIA to be taken from Mena Airport in the western part of the state. Rather than being a time of tranquility when the U.S. failed to pay attention to the gathering storm of terrorism, as New York Times columnist David Brooks frames it, the Clinton presidency saw rising tensions among the U.S., China and Russia because of Clinton's malign foreign policies, and U.S. complicity in terrorist acts.
In so many ways, Clinton's presidency set the groundwork for the disasters that were to follow under Bush II, Obama, Trump, and Biden. It was Clinton--building off of Reagan--who first waged a War on Terror ridden with double standards, one that adopted terror tactics, including extraordinary rendition, bombing and the use of drones. It was Clinton who cried wolf about human rights abuses and the need to protect beleaguered peoples from genocide to justify military intervention in a post-Cold War age. And it was Clinton's administration that pressed for regime change in Iraq and raised public alarm about the mythic WMDs--all while relying on fancy new military technologies and private military contractors to distance US shady military interventions from the public to limit dissent.
Product Details
| Publisher | Clarity Press |
| Publish Date | January 15, 2024 |
| Pages | 432 |
| Language | English |
| Type |  Paperback / softback |
| EAN/UPC | 9781949762761 |
| Dimensions | 9.0 X 6.1 X 0.9 inches | 1.4 pounds |
About the Author
Jeremy Kuzmarov is Managing editor of CovertAction Magazine and author of 4 previous books on U.S. foreign policy: The Myth of the Addicted Army: Vietnam and the Modern War on Drugs (University of Massachusetts Press, 2009); Modernizing Repression: Police Training and Nation Building in the American Century (University of Massachusetts Press, 2012); The Russians are Coming, Again: The First Cold War as Tragedy, the Second as Farce, with John Marciano (Monthly Review Press, 2018); and Obama's Unending Wars: Fronting the Foreign Policy of the Permanent Warfare State (Clarity Press, 2019).
Reviews
"Kuzmarov's book is engaging, thought-provoking, and accessible to various audiences. Students and others who are looking for a survey of Clinton's foreign policy will find this book extremely useful. Scholars of the Global War on Terror in the post-9/11 period will find chapters seven, eight, and nine especially insightful and interesting. Policymakers and stakeholders in the American government will find several useful takeaways throughout the book and will perhaps leave with a better understanding of the biases, misunderstandings, and issues involved in the creation and implementation of policy. This book is an important call to action in rethinking America's engagement with the world and understanding the nation's complicated and often problematic foreign policy. "H-Diplo
H-Net network on Diplomatic History and International Affairs
"Before Obama's drones, there were Clinton's cruise missiles. For those curious about how liberals became today's most fervent cheerleaders of the national security state and the intelligence community, look no further than this devastating revisionist account of the foreign policies of William Jefferson Clinton, who authorized more military interventions in his first term than during all eight years of Ronald Reagan. More than just a catalog of Clintonian interventionism, Warmonger draws on primary sources to construct a convincing origins narrative for how the seemingly progressive Clinton became one of the most dedicated American imperialists of the post Cold War era." - Thomas C. Field Jr., Associate Professor and Department Chair, Global Security and Intelligence Studies at the Embry-Riddle College of Security and Intelligence
"Prolific and faultless researcher-writer, in addition to being Covert Action Magazine's managing editor, who brought CAM back into the fore as a leading leftwing and investigative reporting website, Jeremy Kuzmarov found spare time to write this unique tome about one of US's greatest warmongering presidents. With Jeremy's fifth book on US foreign policy (perpetual war-making) he has unclothed egregious, jingoist Bill Clinton's presidency--albeit not so recognized by the general public, mainly due to "liberals", "progressives" negation of this indisputable truth. These apologists are significantly Democrats and European Social Democrats whose hyperbole--"Democrats are better than Republicans"--seeks to obscure complicity with US "color revolutions"/"human rights" wars. Bring "democracy" to the world, they contend, with untold millions murdered and/or tortured, or left starving by crippling sanctions." --RON RIDENOUR, author, The Russian Peace Threat: Pentagon on Alert
"Bill Clinton's jolly amorality personified the superficial self-confidence of an American elite intoxicated with the notion it had "won the Cold War" and so from now on, anything goes. Thus the Clinton administration forged ahead with policies based on blatant lies and unlimited confidence in the ability of U.S. power to get its way forever. Jeremy Kuzmarov's new book records how Clinton's short-sighted opportunism contributed to long term disasters all over the world." DIANA JOHNSTONE, author of Queen of Chaos: The Misadventures of Hillary Clinton
"Who first set us on this disastrous road of endless war and imperial overreach? Who won over liberals by saying that military interventions were for humanitarian purposes? Who first raised false fears of WMD in Iraq and set in motion the U S. invasion? Who first carried out the odious practices of extraordinary rendition and drone attacks in the War on Terror? Who first violated the US pledge, extended the borders of NATO and triggered the new Cold War with Russia? Jeremy Kuzmarov brilliantly answers these questions in his stunning new book, Warmonger: How Clinton's Malign Foreign Policy Launched the US Trajectory From Bush II to Biden." ---James Bradley. Author, Flags of Our Fathers, The China Mirage
H-Net network on Diplomatic History and International Affairs
"Before Obama's drones, there were Clinton's cruise missiles. For those curious about how liberals became today's most fervent cheerleaders of the national security state and the intelligence community, look no further than this devastating revisionist account of the foreign policies of William Jefferson Clinton, who authorized more military interventions in his first term than during all eight years of Ronald Reagan. More than just a catalog of Clintonian interventionism, Warmonger draws on primary sources to construct a convincing origins narrative for how the seemingly progressive Clinton became one of the most dedicated American imperialists of the post Cold War era." - Thomas C. Field Jr., Associate Professor and Department Chair, Global Security and Intelligence Studies at the Embry-Riddle College of Security and Intelligence
"Prolific and faultless researcher-writer, in addition to being Covert Action Magazine's managing editor, who brought CAM back into the fore as a leading leftwing and investigative reporting website, Jeremy Kuzmarov found spare time to write this unique tome about one of US's greatest warmongering presidents. With Jeremy's fifth book on US foreign policy (perpetual war-making) he has unclothed egregious, jingoist Bill Clinton's presidency--albeit not so recognized by the general public, mainly due to "liberals", "progressives" negation of this indisputable truth. These apologists are significantly Democrats and European Social Democrats whose hyperbole--"Democrats are better than Republicans"--seeks to obscure complicity with US "color revolutions"/"human rights" wars. Bring "democracy" to the world, they contend, with untold millions murdered and/or tortured, or left starving by crippling sanctions." --RON RIDENOUR, author, The Russian Peace Threat: Pentagon on Alert
"Bill Clinton's jolly amorality personified the superficial self-confidence of an American elite intoxicated with the notion it had "won the Cold War" and so from now on, anything goes. Thus the Clinton administration forged ahead with policies based on blatant lies and unlimited confidence in the ability of U.S. power to get its way forever. Jeremy Kuzmarov's new book records how Clinton's short-sighted opportunism contributed to long term disasters all over the world." DIANA JOHNSTONE, author of Queen of Chaos: The Misadventures of Hillary Clinton
"Who first set us on this disastrous road of endless war and imperial overreach? Who won over liberals by saying that military interventions were for humanitarian purposes? Who first raised false fears of WMD in Iraq and set in motion the U S. invasion? Who first carried out the odious practices of extraordinary rendition and drone attacks in the War on Terror? Who first violated the US pledge, extended the borders of NATO and triggered the new Cold War with Russia? Jeremy Kuzmarov brilliantly answers these questions in his stunning new book, Warmonger: How Clinton's Malign Foreign Policy Launched the US Trajectory From Bush II to Biden." ---James Bradley. Author, Flags of Our Fathers, The China Mirage
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