Book DescriptionHaving unraveled the mysteries of Washington in his classic best-seller Parliament of Whores and the mysteries of economics in Eat the Rich, one of our shrewdest and most mordant foreign correspondents now turns his attention to what is these days the ultimate mystery Americas foreign policy Although he has written about озъдс foreigners and foreign affairs for years, P J ORourke has, like most Americans, never really thought about foreign policy Just as a dog ownerdoesnt have a dog policy, says P J , we feed foreigners, take care of them, give them treats, and when absolutely necessary, whack them with a rolled up newspaper But in Peace Kills, P J finally sets out to make sense of Americas Great Game (no, not the slot machines in Vegas) He visits countries on the brink of conflict, in the grips of it, and still reeling from it, starting with Kosovo, where he discovers that whenever theres injustice, oppression, and suffering, America will show up six months late and bomb the country next to where its happening From there, its on to Egypt, Israel, Kuwait, Afghanistan, and Iraq, where P J witnesses both the start and finish of hostilities P J also examines the effect of war and peace on the home front from the absurd hassles of airport security to the hideous specter of anthrax (luckily the only threats in his mail are from credit card companies) Peace Kills is P J ORourke at his most incisive and relevant an eye-opening look at a world much changed since he declared in his number-one national best-seller Give War a Chance that the most troubling aspect of war is sometimes peace itself.  Издание 19992004 г ISBN 1593353227.