So the question becomes not so much who plays "good cop" and who plays "bad cop," as who gets the job done?

Marshall gets to the crux of the problem quickly here. Pointing directly towards early support for the war from some of the leading lights of liberalism in the name of combating a post 9/11 "threat of terrorism," he more correctly identifies the need to maintain and spread corporate interests in the world in the name of good old fashioned American capitalism as the true culprit.

Early on, he attends an event where liberal academics Paul Berman and Michael Ignatieff defend the security issue as a valid reason to go to war with Iraq, as being the least of the evils available in the way of options. Which, at the very least, makes one ponder in retrospect our post 9/11 rush to war in the wake of what we now know. Likewise, it makes you almost embarrassed for the current Democratic presidential candidates running — frantically in some cases — from that initial support for the Iraq war.

In later chapters, Marshall goes after everybody from Gore Vidal to such sacred cows as Bono and Bob Geldof, and the way their Live 8 show to raise money for starving people in Africa also featured a lily-white cast of performers.

This is a book that almost makes you wonder how the draft card burning radicals of the sixties anti-war movement — the group which most defines modern day liberalism — would have approached these times. While I don't necessarily agree with everything said in this book, I certainly did find it thought provoking.

Published — probably because no one else would dare touch it — by the ever-subversive folks at the Disinformation Company, who are responsible for such books as Everything You Know Is Wrong, I'd recommend this book to any and all "enquiring minds who want to know."

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