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Duration: About 5 hours Read by Dick Hill.

With his latest national best seller, Peace Kills, . Duration: About 5 hours Read by Dick Hill. I've read some of . O'Rourke's columns and have heard an interview or two so I knew that I would most likely find one of his books to be most interesting. To begin with, I found Peace Kills: America's Fun New Imperialism mostly dead-on accurate and depressing. Observations about the War in Bosnia, human nature in general and Israel were factually interesting but mostly deflating. Not that I am My first foray into .

Peace Kills: America's Fun New Imperialism. Written by P. J. O'Rourke. Narrated by Dick Hill. O'Rourke at his most incisive and relevant - an eye-opening look at a world much changed since he declared in his number-one national best-seller Give War a Chance that the most troubling aspect of war is sometimes peace itself. Read on the Scribd mobile app. Download the free Scribd mobile app to read anytime, anywhere. O'Rourke casts his ever-shrewd and mordant eye on America's latest adventures in warfare. Imperialism has never been more fun. To unravel the mysteries of war.

But in 'Peace Kills', PJ finally sets out to make sense of America's "Great Game" Although he has written about foreigners and foreign affairs for years, PJ O'Rourke has never really thought.

But in 'Peace Kills', PJ finally sets out to make sense of America's "Great Game". He visits countries on the brink of conflict, in the grips of it, and still reeling from it, starting with Kosovo where he discovers that "whenever there's injustice, oppression and suffering, America will show up six months late and bomb the country next to where it's happening. From there, it's on to Egypt, Israel, Kuwait, Afghanistan, and Iraq, where PJ witnesses both the start and finish of hostilities.

Peace kills: America’s fun new imperialism, P. O’Rourke. With us was The Philadelphia Inquirer’s Andrea Gerlin, fresh from combat coverage with a brilliant idea for selling American women a fitness and weight-loss program based on sleeping in holes, getting shot at, and eating MREs. p. cm. ISBN 0-8021-4198-6 (pb. 1. United States-Foreign relations-2001- 2. United States-Foreign relations-1993-2001. 3. War on Terrorism, 2001- 4. War on Terrorism, 2001-Social aspects-United States. 6. O’Rourke, P. Travel-Serbia and Montenegro-Kosovo (Serbia). 7. Travel-Middle East.

O’Rourke discussed his book Peace Kills: America’s Fun New Imperialism, published by the Atlantic Monthly Press. In his eleventh book, a collection of essays, Mr. O’Rourke examines American foreign policy

O’Rourke discussed his book Peace Kills: America’s Fun New Imperialism, published by the Atlantic Monthly Press. O’Rourke examines American foreign policy. After the discussion, Mr. O’Rourke answered questions from members of the audience. Closed Captioning Record People Graphical Timeline. All Speakers P.

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O'Rourke contributes regularly to such magazines as Playboy, Esquire, Vanity Fair, The American Spectator, The New Republic, and Rolling Stone (for which he is Foreign Affairs Desk Chief). Patrick O'Rourke has published 15 books including three New York Times bestsellers. His bestselling novels include Parliament of Whores, Give War a Chance, and All the Troubles in the World. Библиографические данные. Peace Kills: America's Fun New Imperialism. Imperialism has never been more fu. o unravel the mysteries of war, O'Rourke first visits Kosovo: "Wherever there's injustice, oppression, and suffering, America will show up six months later and bomb the country next to where it's happening. He travels to Israel at the outbreak of the intifada. He flies to Egypt in the wake of the 9/11 terrorists' attacks and contemplates bygone lunacies

Having unraveled the mysteries of Washington in his classic best-seller Parliament of Whores and the mysteries of economics in Eat the Rich, one of our shrewdest and most mordant foreign correspondents now turns his attention to what is these days the ultimate mystery ― America’s foreign policy. Although he has written about foreigners and foreign affairs for years, P.J. O’Rourke has, like most Americans, never really thought about foreign policy. Just as a dog owner doesn’t have a “dog policy,” says P.J., “we feed foreigners, take care of them, give them treats, and when absolutely necessary, whack them with a rolled up newspaper.” But in Peace Kills, P.J. finally sets out to make sense of America’s “Great Game” (no, not the slot machines in Vegas). He visits countries on the brink of conflict, in the grips of it, and still reeling from it, starting with Kosovo, where he discovers that “whenever there’s injustice, oppression, and suffering, America will show up six months late and bomb the country next to where it’s happening.” From there, it’s on to Egypt, Israel, Kuwait, Afghanistan, and Iraq, where P.J. witnesses both the start and finish of hostilities. P.J. also examines the effect of war and peace on the home front ― from the absurd hassles of airport security to the hideous specter of anthrax (luckily the only threats in his mail are from credit card companies). Peace Kills is P.J. O’Rourke at his most incisive and relevant ― an eye-opening look at a world much changed since he declared in his number-one national best-seller Give War a Chance that the most troubling aspect of war is sometimes peace itself.
Reviews about Peace Kills: America's Fun New Imperialism (7):
Rivik
Good read. Most all P.J. O'Rourke's books, with a couple of exceptions (mostly his early stuff) are excellent,
Akta
Book Review for: PEACE KILLS

I read his previous book "Give War a Chance", which I thought was awesome. Awesome, but a tad outdated as it centered around the 1st Gulf war. So I purchased this book to see the author's take on current events. The critics of the previous Gulf War I think were a little easier to make fun of.

The author, P.J. O'Rourke doesn't really disappoint when it comes to making fun of peace protesters. They tend to be a stupid bunch, I have noted that myself when I witnessed a protest march in DC. The book is awesome hilarious when the author makes fun of Nobel prize winners and their illiterate and easily disprovable political assertions about poverty.

What I wanted to read about when I read this book is how if at all the author modified his opinions from the fist book. In the fist book he talked about all the evil things the Iraqi army did in Kuwait when they invaded. And at the time just after Gulf War 1 it seemed that the cost of the liberation of Kuwait was easily worth it, restoring freedom to the Kuwaitis, keeping the lion's share of the world's oil out of the hands of an evil dictator.

I wanted to see, now that it seems that the situation we are in now is the direct, perhaps inescapable result of the 1st war, how the author judged the cost effectiveness of the 1st war. Was it still worth it? Was it still the right thing to do? I like the author's style and I admire his logic, and I would have liked to read him having written either for or against the conflict in its entirety. But in this book he does neither.

Still the book was entertaining. The author makes fun of homeland security (I would have liked him to be more cruel in making fun of the incompetent joke and waste of taxpayer money that organization is). He makes fun of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which is both funny and tragic. He is entertaining but goes on a little too long about his travels in Egypt, and he has some interesting insights into the Arab mindset. He also poses an interesting theory about why the Arabs have not been successful at freedom or wealth, despite the fact that Mohammed said something to the effect of "it is not governments place to set prices". Even the small Arab countries that are simply a plot of land sitting on a spigot of liquid money offer little in the way of opportunity or freedom.

(My theory is that the spigot of liquid money is counterproductive because it creates a welfare nation. And a welfare nation is a nation that has no incentive to produce anything, and when the government is your provider you have no moral grounds to ask the government to leave you alone. The author's theory has something to do with initial wealth being derived from taxing commerce of the trade routes that went through their countries, thus there is a history of taxation and government regulation without visible consequences. As my theory does not account for the Arab countries that have no oil, and are still poverty ridden dictatorships, I think that the real answer is both and then some. Maybe it is something about no legitimate government power in Islam, so the most ruthless ones that don't care about legitimacy are the ones that gain power.)

Perhaps the funniest part of the book was the mocking of the peace protesters. A protest march of many different groups of protesters, all protesting together. Many of the groups with no clue, many others whose goals were in direct opposition to each other. Gays, Communists, Militant Islamists, Vegans all together, and some other groups with whose demands were uncertain, either because of the poor English in their signs, or because their message was a contradiction. None of the various groups seeming to grasp that, if any of the individual groups in the protest were actually in charge of our government; it would be pure hell for everyone in the other groups.
Nanecele
O'Rouke is a cigar smoking alcoholic who types his manuscripts on an IBM Selectric. He is yesterdays news. His cheap shots and grade school level analysis of current events indicate an individual who has stopped in time (circa the 1950's one guesses). Peace Kills is an awful, rambling collection of unimportant observations ("the unspellables killing the unpronouncables" written by an ignorant bigot who, because he can't spell or pronounce the names, thinks that they are of worthless inferiors). O'Rourke is a typical Midwest, clodhopping ignoramous who thinks he is God's answer to America's moral and political problems. Well, he is not. His observations and respective judgments are jejune (probably because his brain is atrophied from the tobacco carcinogens and the neurotoxins in the booze) appealing to intellectually insipid adolescents and intellectually and morally shallow imbeciles who claim to be "libertarians." This book is a waste of any decent human beings time.
Felolak
P.J. O’ Rourke is the Republican’s answer to John Stewart.

Actually, John Stewart is the Democrat’s belated answer to P.J. O’Rourke, because PJ has been skewering left-wing pravda's with his trademark iconoclastic writings long before Stewart was even allowed out of training pants, doing MTV to peddle fake news.

O’Rourke has a worldly, cynical view of our modern earthly monkey house, tinged with a libertarian sensibility informed by, if nothing else, decades of chemically induced self-abuse and what must have been many close calls with the cops, but also tempered by an older-but-wiser celtic resignation to fate and an acceptance of the persistent limitations of the human race.

His writing style is two-Mick's-in-a-pub conversational, launching into a free-form monologue with his readers, painting pictures and demolishing cherished beliefs with comedic but nonetheless cogent jabs loaded with the Ring of Truth, aimed at the almost limitless opportunities for ridicule presented by the currently reigning politically correct establishment worldview.

This particular book concerns various American efforts to police the world, beginning in 1999 with Kosovo and concluding shortly after the fall of Baghdad in 2003. 'Peace Kills' offers the reader not only Mr. O'Rourke's extremely entertaining anecdotal accounts of that experience, but also, having been published in 2004, presents a perspective free from all the baggage which has accumulated since the good old days of ‘Mission Accomplished’.
Bodwyn
The book appears to have been written with no thought about underlying theme or purpose. It simply had no point that I could find. It is a catchy title with much promise but the author must have forgotten what the title was as he began to fill the pages with disconnected musings.

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