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About Washington's War On Nicaragua
Product Description An account of U.S. policy from the Sandinista revolution through the Iran-contra scandal and beyond. Sklar shows how the White House sabotaged peace negoatiations and sustained the deadly contra war despite public opposition, with secret U.S. special forces and an auxiliary arm of dictators, drug smugglers and death squad godfathers, and illuminates an alternative policy rooted in law and democracy. From Publishers Weekly Among recent books on U.S. policy in Nicaragua, this one stands out for its combination of fact, historical analysis and open disgust over American arrogance. Sklar ( Trilateralism ) maintains that fear of "another Cuba" is an illusion fostered by the Reagan administration's propaganda-lobbying effort and argues that "another Vietnam" is a more likely parallel. She warns that a Central American invasion will remain a prospect even after Reagan leaves office. Both liberals and conservatives claim the unilateral, self-ordained right of the United States to define Latin American destiny by interference, the author contends, finding this attitude nowhere more blatant than in U.S. policy toward Nicaragua. Sklar advocates ending all efforts to manipulate, destabilize or overthrow the Sandinistas, and the payment of reparations, the signing of a nonaggression pact between Washington and Managua, and cancelation of all U.S. military maneuvers in the region. Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Library Journal This is a severe critique of the basis for U.S. foreign policy in Latin America in general, and Nicaragua specifically, which fully documents the underlying assumptions and actions of the Carter and Reagan administrations toward that country. The author contends that the United States has pursued an interventionist policy, and that instead of debating how much we should involve ourselves, politicians need to examine the antidemocratic and immoral assumptions of U.S. policy. Sklar makes an excellent case, which surely will call up the old question: If other countries don't pursue such morally consistent policies, why should we? Recommended for most libraries. Roderic A. Camp, Central Coll., Pella, Ia. Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
