Irangate
Edward Said, 7 May 1987
The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey
by Salman Rushdie.
Picador, 171 pp., £2.95, January 1987,0 330 29990 5 Show More
by Salman Rushdie.
Picador, 171 pp., £2.95, January 1987,
Turning the Tide: US Intervention in Central America and the Struggle for Peace
by Noam Chomsky.
Pluto, 298 pp., £5.95, September 1986,0 7453 0184 3 Show More
by Noam Chomsky.
Pluto, 298 pp., £5.95, September 1986,
“... empires came and went, that other schemes of control were devised and failed, that other peoples rose up, rid themselves of foreign rulers, and brought in regimes that were sometimes worse but often a good deal better than their predecessors – all this seems scarcely to have mattered in the calculations of Reagan and his Administration. Just as important ... ”