02502cam a2200277 i 4500 20250728122659.0 9789392018206 327.73 CHO/W 23/eng/20220920 Chomsky, Noam, 31 The withdrawal : Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the fragility of U.S. power / by Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad. Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the fragility of U.S. power . - New Delhi : Left word Books , 2024 xiii, 208 pages ; Foreword statement of responsibility from jacket cover. "The withdrawal is based on conversations between the two of us held in late 2021, but also on conversations we have had over the courses of the past few years. The book is an edited version of these conversations"--Page 16. Includes bibliographical references. Vietnam and Laos -- 9/11 and Afghanistan -- Iraq -- Libya -- Fragilities of U.S. Power. "Not since the last American troops left Vietnam have we faced such a sudden vacuum in our foreign policy--not only of authority, but also of explanations of what happened, and what the future holds. Few analysts are better poised to address this moment than Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad, intellectuals and critics whose work spans generations and continents. Called "the most widely read voice on foreign policy on the planet" by the New York Times Book Review, Noam Chomsky is the guiding light of dissidents around the world. In The Withdrawal, Chomsky joins with noted scholar Vijay Prashad--who "helps to uncover the shining worlds hidden under official history and dominant media" (Eduardo Galeano)--to get at the roots of this unprecedented time of peril and change. Chomsky and Prashad interrogate key inflection points in America's downward spiral: from the disastrous Iraq War to the failed Libyan intervention to the descent into chaos in Afghanistan. As the final moments of American power in Afghanistan fade from view, this crucial book argues that we must not take our eyes off the wreckage--and that we need, above all, an unsentimental view of the new world we must build together." -- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 32 POLITICAL SCIENCE / Security (National & International) 33 Diplomatic relations. 34 Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) 35 Prashad, Vijay, 36 Davis, Angela Y. 37 ddc BK 750639 750639 0 0 ddc 0 0 POL POL 2025-02-06 0 327.73 CHO/W POL23744 2025-07-28 12:28:21 2025-07-28 BK