Boomerang!: How Our Covert Wars Have Created Enemies Across the Middle East and Bring Terror to America

From the author of The CIA’s Greatest Hits comes a gripping read exposing U.S. terror that has finally come home to roost.From Afghanistan to Turkey, from the Caspian Sea to the Sudan, the U.S. has ripped through one country after another in the Middle East and elsewhere, manipulating and marauding for its own benefit.Zepezauer takes his title from Herbert Hoover's comment made right after Pearl Harbor: "You can't keep sticking needles in a rattlesnake and expect not to get bitten."This is a history with which Arabs and Muslims are painfully familiar, but which Americans can no longer afford to ignore. For years the Middle East has seethed over our country's support for the expulsion of Palestinians and the occupation of their land; for the ongoing sanctions that have killed over one million Iraqis; and for hated but US-friendly regimes in Egypt, Jordan and elsewhere. Dissidents are tortured with equipment marked "made in the USA," children are killed by US-built missiles and bombs, and millions live in poverty while we send billions of dollars to help their oppressors stay in power.As one Sudanese villager summed it up: "We know that somebody comes from another country and takes our oil." Americans need to know what's being done in our name to take the oil we use every day. To look the other way is to put our children and grandchildren at risk while our taxes pay to keep needling the rattlesnake.