Dexter Filkins.
The Forever War.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf / Random House, Inc., 2008.
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This is a book for people who choose to ignore various unpleasant facts, such as: U.S. government corruption; the personal corruption and venality of the people installed in leading elective and appointive positions in the U.S. government, and their consequent corrupt policy and actions; the economic motivations for wars; historical context; imperialism; cultural and sociological differences of people in other regions and nations. There are many other books one could read to understand those things in relation to the U.S. government's quest for military and economic dominance in Iraq and other places. Instead Filkins offers personal stories of the "little people" (my words), individuals caught up in events, the passive victims (excluding U.S. government employees and occasional Iraqis) upon whom the winds of war blow.