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The West's Road to 9/11 offers a detailed explanation of the handling of the challenge of terrorism by the USA, the UK and the West over the last thirty years. David Carlton contends that anti-terrorist rhetoric by the Governments of the West frequently masked indifference to the activities of many practitioners of non-state violence; and that in the case of the United States it did not hesitate even to sponsor those terrorist movements if deemed supportive of its wider geopolitical objectives

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 CRUSADING FOR INTERVENTION (1917-1920) -- 2 IRRECONCILABLE ADVERSARY (1921-1933) -- 3 GUARDED RAPPROCHEMENT (1934-1939) -- 4 KEEPING IN STEP WITH PUBLIC OPINION? (1939-1941) -- 5 ALLIED WITH HELL (1942-1945) -- 6 PREACHING CONFRONTATION (1945-1949) -- 7 SUMMITRY AND THE PRIMACY OF DOMESTIC POLITICS (1950-1955) -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.

The SALT proceedings have been criticized as a case of US appeasement following the example of Neville Chamberlain. However, Chamberlain was in fact correct; the UK was unable to defeat Germany, Italy, & Japan, & the aftermath of WWII involved the collapse of the British Empire & the domination of Europe by the US & the USSR, whose involvement in the war was responsible for the defeat of Hitler. Noninvolvement in foreign conflicts was a well-established tradition in the foreign policy of many European states. Moreover, Churchill himself ended by taking measures based on appeasement of the US & the USSR. Significant parallels are found with the present situation of the US. It is not possible for the US to oppose the Soviets, the Chinese, & advocates of the New International Economic Order; restriction of opposition to situations in which US interests are vitally affected is necessary. W. H. Stoddard.