Monday, May 15, 2006

Stop meddling

Stephen Kinzer, author of the new book Overthrow, had an op-ed in the LA Times this weekend.

In it, he laid out what I suppose you could call the pragmatic case against a policy of regime change, since "in the long run" toppling governments usually weakens "American security."

All well and good, but it might be useful to go a little further with the analysis on offer. Luckily, Stephen Gowans does that for Kinzer.