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# Get this book…if you can

If you want erudite and reasoned analysis of the roots of the current state if US foreign policy, [Gwynne Dyer's](http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/D/htmlD/dyergwynne/dyergwynne.htm) [Future: Tense](http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=t820GoeArK&isbn=0771029780&itm=2) would be the book for you. [Funny, Amazon doesn't seem to carry it.]

It plots the course and rationale for the neo-conservative revolution and its primary objectives: a *Pax Americana* enforced by special forces and weapons of high technology, and the diminishment (or dissolution) of the UN.

The book makes a strong case that this undertaking will lead to a multi-polar world, with regional blocs of economic-military alliance banded together to mutually defend each other. He draws comparisons to the world prior to the First World War and the spheres of influence in Goerge Orwell's *1984*.

Yummy good read.

**May 22:** Hmmm, the ideas in the book are pretty much spot on. Not bad for 18 years ago. All he missed was the climate crisis and the water wars.