Regime overthrow in Iraq -- The body count keeps growing -- A war for oil -- US policy in the Gulf -- Containing Saddam -- The neocon vision of the Middle East -- Finding a pretext to invade -- Israel's role behind the scenes -- The long campaign against Iran -- The propaganda war -- Israel's fear of a nuclear rival -- US readies for a military strike -- Turning the clock back 20 years in Lebanon -- Evidence the war was planned -- Syria was supposed to be next -- A power struggle in Washington -- Ahmadinejad : the new Hitler -- End of the strongmen -- Who controls American foreign policy? -- The dog and tail wag each other -- Israel's relations with its patrons -- Sharon's doctrine of empire -- Making the Middle East collapse -- Remaking the Middle East -- Neocon motives in backing Israel's vision -- The occupied territories as a laboratory -- Over the precipice and into civil war -- Iraq : a model for the region?
Summary
Journalist Jonathan Cook argues that Israel's desire to be the sole regional power in the Middle East has shaped the Bush administration's objectives in the 'war on terror'. Cook argues that chaos in the Middle East, far from being unintended, is actually the true goal of the Bush administration
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-188) and index
