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JAMIE BRITTON recommends that we all buy at least two copies of a remarkable book of poems
The Management of Savagery
by Max Blumenthal
(Verso, £18.99)
“THE PEOPLE we are fighting to-day we funded 20 years ago,” the then US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton declared in 2009 and, by opening his book with that quote, Max Blumenthal highlights what he describes as the symbiotic relationship between the US and violent sectarian Islamist groups.
Clinton also obliquely acknowledged Operation Cyclone, during which the US massively funded Afghan opposition groups to bring down the pro-Soviet government, a policy which contributed to the demise of the Soviet Union itself.
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