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A review by chris_h7654
To Kill a Nation: The Attack on Yugoslavia by Michael Parenti
4.0
A highly intelligent, informed, and angry book about the NATO war against Yugoslavia in the 90s.
My one criticism — albeit a significant one — is Parenti’s seemingly one-sided and highly selective presentation of the economic background of the Yugoslav conflict. Basically, he blames it all on the greedy and evil Western bankers. While I’m open to narratives along those lines, Parenti’s ideological Marxism seemed to blind him to the Socialist Yugoslav government’s failures and mismanagement.
Overall, however, such faults are more than redeemed by Parenti’s evisceration of Western governments’ and the media’s bias, duplicity, greed, and brutality. The book is a must-read for anyone interested in learning about the recent wars in the former Yugoslavia, or even about post-Cold War US foreign policy more generally.
My one criticism — albeit a significant one — is Parenti’s seemingly one-sided and highly selective presentation of the economic background of the Yugoslav conflict. Basically, he blames it all on the greedy and evil Western bankers. While I’m open to narratives along those lines, Parenti’s ideological Marxism seemed to blind him to the Socialist Yugoslav government’s failures and mismanagement.
Overall, however, such faults are more than redeemed by Parenti’s evisceration of Western governments’ and the media’s bias, duplicity, greed, and brutality. The book is a must-read for anyone interested in learning about the recent wars in the former Yugoslavia, or even about post-Cold War US foreign policy more generally.