Remembering Santayana: The lessons unlearnt from the war against Japan

by Paul De Vries

During the prologue to the Iraq War of 2003, George W. Bush repeatedly employed the example of Japan to advocate why Iraq could be remade as a democratic state within the Western alliance. If a nation as divergent and unique as Japan could be agreeably transformed, he reasoned, any nation could. The bulk of the pre-war assumptions of George W. Bush have long since been derided but this particular premise remains broadly held. Even today, when failure...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1514186594
• ISBN13: 9781514186596
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"