Tariq Ali has been an outspoken critic of the American occupation of Iraq and the larger U.S. administration agenda for proliferating democracy in the Middle East through an Iraqi beachhead.  Here he reviews themes developed in Bush in Babylon to explain how current U.S. policy in the Middle East may be having precisely the opposite effect than Washington intends.

Hosted by: Department of History

In conjunction with: Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, Unit One