After many years studying the sordid world of weapon sales, William Hartung has to be somewhat shell-shocked. But he's still trying to put the brakes on the international arms trade, and his newest effort lives up to its subtitle: "A Quick and Dirty Guide to War Profiteering in the Bush Administration." The problem is whether anyone outside the choir of progressives will hear what this preacher is saying. The book's anti-Bush call to arms unfortunately drowns out the conclusion a reader can't help but arrive at: Our foreign and domestic policies don't drive the arms trade; it's the arms business that dictates those policies. This is a bipartisan problem that can't be laid just at the feet of Dick Cheney/George W. Bush and cronies. (To be fair, the author has sometimes taken Democrats to task in previous... More >>>