A Choice of Enemies: America Confronts the Middle East - Lawrence Freedman - Google Books

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It is in the Middle East that the U.S. has been made to confront its attitudes on the use of force, the role of allies, and international law. The history of the U.S. in the Middle East, then, becomes an especially revealing mirror on America's view of its…