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The matador's cape : America's reckless response to terror /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Holmes, Stephen, 1948-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Subjects:
War on Terrorism, 2001-2009.
Terrorism > Government policy > United States.
United States > Politics and government > 2001-2009.
United States > Foreign relations > 2001-2009.
Terrorism > Religious aspects > Islam.
Anti-Americanism.
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 > Influence.
Online Access:Publisher description
Table of contents only
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Did religious extremism cause 9/11?
  • Why military superiority breeds illusions
  • How the war was lost
  • Radicals trapped in the past
  • A self-inflicted wound
  • Searching for a new enemy after the Cold War
  • Humanitarianism with teeth
  • The war of the liberals
  • The neo-conservative intifada
  • Liberalism strangled by war
  • The unilateralist curse
  • Battling lawlessness with lawlessness
  • The infallibility trap
  • Conclusion.