By Michael Pritchett
Whereas writing a biography of his well-known namesake, invoice Lewis, a high-school historical past instructor, approximately loses himself in his makes an attempt to appreciate one of many nice untold tales in American history—the adventures and next suicide of Meriwether Lewis. whilst he struggles to light up that unusual and exuberant time and and falls less than the spell of the elusively seductive character of Capt. Lewis, invoice unearths himself combating his personal own predicament, caused by a medical melancholy that threatens not just his e-book, yet his activity, his kinfolk, his 13-year marriage, and his personal survival earlier the age of 40.
In this wealthy, convinced debut novel, Michael Pritchett not just authentically recreates the realm in which Lewis and Clark compelled their approach, but additionally unearths amazing parallels among Capt. Lewis’s doubt approximately occur future and the modern uncertainty of the introspective glossy male at a time while all our values are in query.
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Moreover, after two years, the privatization process had become largely irreversible. The destruction of shuttered factories by looters and weather had left many of them beyond repair, and the necessary, skilled technicians had been dismissed. Beyond this, the new Iraqi government, constructed according to the neoliberal recipes of the occupation, was not equipped to construct or sustain the sorts of manufacturing enterprises that Brinkley was trying to revive. 11 The Baghdad tractor factory, like many other resuscitated plants, was operating at only partial capacity.
The answer lies in following the logic of using America’s military supremacy to impose economic solutions in the Middle East and elsewhere. S. 37 It is in this context that weapons of mass destruction became an issue, since any country that possessed WMDs would likely be able to resist such surgical attack. The PNAC made a particular point of saying that no adversary or potential adversary should be allowed to acquire WMDs, since these would effectively deter an invasion: Weak states operating small arsenals of crude ballistic missiles, armed with basic nuclear warheads or other weapons of mass destruction, will be in a strong position to deter the United States from using conventional force, no matter the technological or other advantages we may enjoy.
S. invasion of Iraq, designed to “open up” the Iraqi oil fields to foreign investment, was therefore entirely consistent 34 War Without End with the long legacy of military and economic intervention around the world. To use Smith’s phrase, the policy that led to the invasion of Iraq was designed “to impose a global capitalism dressed up as liberal democracy” on the Middle East. S. Goals for the New Iraqi Regime The Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA), the administrative apparatus installed by the United States to run Iraq after the overthrow of the Hussein regime, might have focused narrowly on the oil goals of the Cheney Energy Task Force.