Book Review: "Bill Kauffman's 'Ain't My America' - by Doug Bandow"

IN PRAISE OF VILLAGE REBELS, LITTLE AMERICANS!

LOCALS FIRST, LOATHING A 'WAR HAWK COUNTRY'!

Here comes a book that every Kansan who loves old fashioned republicanism should have on their book shelves. Less of the Mission Hills, Ks. variety, which very eloquently talked down about us like Thomas Frank's "What's the Matter with Kansas" and more of a jab into the eyes of the interventionist corporate liberals and war mongering Big Business Busheviks. I'll say it again, most Kansas Republicans have been dumbed down to being mindless uncritical loyalists to an advertising machine, and assumed that imperialist arrogance and mass amnesia will save the country.

Well, here comes Bill Kauffman's new book "Ain't My America: The Long, Noble History of Antiwar Conservatism and Middle-American Anti-Imperialism" to remind ma, pa, grandma and Aunt Sally what has been forgotten of the "isolationists" - I love it!

Bandow begins the book review with: "American politicians routinely chatter about peace while inaugurating war. Indeed, despite the bitter partisan wrangling over Iraq, war has more often united than divided Washington's establishment. Today, despite the ongoing debacle in Iraq, Republicans and Democrats compete to breathe more and hotter fire against Iran. It is Democrat Hillary Clinton who threatens to "obliterate" that nation if it attacks not America, but a far distant allied state, one already nuclear-armed and well able to defend itself. Both of the dominant political parties are war parties. ..."

Read the rest because it ain't our America anymore, Kansans! Let's take it back!

Can't read anymore? Listen to an Anti-war Radio interview with the book's author, Bill Kauffman here.