The Foreign Circus - Why Washington Always Gets It Wrong
Ever wondered why Washington is so bad in foreign policy? Why folks like, say, the Russians, walk all over us and laugh about it? Why scandal after scandal, ranging from intelligence failures to drunken, lecherous ambassadors bedevil us? Why Americans would much rather watch re-runs of Keeping Up With the Kardashians than pay attention to Syria, Crimea or global climate change? Then read my latest book, The Foreign Circus: Why Foreign Policy Should Not Be Left in the Hands of Diplomats, Spies and Political Hacks. It's a compilation of essays drawn from this blog. As an added benefit, I also provide fascinating insights on being the tortured soul called, "Writer."
From the back jacket cover:
An ambassador orders his staff into the lawless interior of a civil war-torn country as guerrillas are targeting foreigners for assassination. Hundreds of millions of dollars of U.S.-bought weaponry are channeled to Afghan religious fanatics, the future Taliban. White House players leak classified information to the media, then blame the leaks on career civil servants. Diplomats succumb to the temptations of exotic overseas sexual playgrounds. Political hacks and campaign money bundlers are rewarded with ambassadorships in a diplomatic spoils system that hearkens back to the Robber Baron age. Computer nerds Edward Snowden and Bradley Manning steal a veritable Croesus of sensitive national security information and give it away free to our adversaries.
What's wrong with this picture? Everything. Our foreign policy is in the hands of the clueless, the self-serving and the politically corrupt. Read this book first. Then fill out papers to emigrate. The author provides a first-hand view from inside the belly of the beast of the U.S. foreign policy establishment. His insights are so spot-on that government censors have blocked out whole sections of text. The Foreign Circus will have you alternatively laughing and shaking your head. And when you read tomorrow's headlines, you'll have a better appreciation why Washington screws up.
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All this for an introductory price of only $2.99 for the ebook! Now available at Amazon, Nook and Kobo. Paperback coming soon.
ETA: The Foreign Circus has already hit Amazon's Kindle Bestseller lists for "Political Humor" and "International Diplomacy."