Kwitny,J. Endless Enemies. 1984
Kwitny, Jonathan. Endless Enemies: The Making of an Unfriendly World.
New York: Congdon & Weed, 1984. 435 pages.
Kwitny, a long-time journalist with the Wall Street Journal, offers a
penetrating criticism of U.S. interventions and meddling throughout the
world, mainly during the 1960s to 1980s. He takes a moral stand against
U.S. foreign policy, and is very critical of America's failure to support
free-enterprise -- e.g., by supporting dictators who run state-controlled
economies (which leaves a reduced role for American multinationals), or
when multinationals, working with dictators, stifle local capitalism. When
dealing with the question of capitalism vs. socialism, Kwitny clearly
admires the former. But by equating socialism with Soviet communism he
deals from a loaded deck and the discussion suffers accordingly.
The American foreign policy fiascos examined at some length are those
in Zaire, the Congo, Angola, Afghanistan, Iran, and Central America. The
section on U.S. involvement in the overthrow of Mossadegh in Iran in 1953
was largely excised from a 1986 Penguin Books edition due to a libel suit
brought against Kwitny by former New York Times reporter Kennett Love.
-- William Blum
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