Kerry wrote
>
> Last essay I read along these lines was a
claim
> that, going back to origins, the new right is
actually the new left. I
> guess Wag the Dog might be the fiction example- was
there a book?
>
Yep, American Hero by Larry Beinhart - much more biting than
the film - it posits the notion that the first Gulf War was a
put up job between Bush Sr and Saddam for their mutual
advantage. Beinhart also wrote some pretty decent straight
crime novels before that.
John
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