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From: bon moun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: [CrashList] bit of shameless promotion
The following is a paste-in from www.softskull.com the publisher for this
book:
You have my permission to forward. (-:
Hideous Dream: A Soldier's Memoir of the U.S. Invasion of Haiti
Stan Goff
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List: $ 18.50
Online: $ 11.70
U.S. imperialism through the eyes of a member of the U.S. special forces.
After a distinguished career in elite Ranger, Airborne and Special Forces
counter-terrorist units, Stan Goff refused to turn away from the
implications of his own experience. He chose to defy the contradictions
between what the foreign policy establishment said and what the US military
did. He took sides with Haitian democratic forces over the US supported
death squads. Conflict escalated with his men, who were steeped in racist,
anti-Haitian propaganda, as well as with commanders who depended on him to
"read between the lines" and support a massive campaign of deception aimed
at both the Haitian and American people.
Hideous Dream is a revealing look inside US foreign policy, behind the
mystique of Special Forces, and inside the racist history of American
imperial domination of Haiti. It is also a deeply personal account of a man
trapped between his emerging political consciousness and the cynical
mandates of his life as a professional soldier.
Stan Goff began his military career in Vietnam as a grunt with the 173rd
Airborne Brigade. He went to Guatemala, El Salvador, Grenada, Panama,
Venezuela, Honduras, South Korea, Colombia, Peru, and Somalia, with Special
Operations Units, before participating in the 1994 invasion of Haiti. He
worked in Infantry, Ranger, Special Forces, and Counter-terrorist units, as
well as taught at the Jungle Operations Training Center and at West Point.
"If insurrection is an art, its main content is to know how to give the
struggle the form appropriate to the political situation."
-Vo Nguyen Giap
"Rather than seeking comparabilities in statistical terms among what are
all too often superficial features of different situations, comparabilities
must be sought at the level of determinate mechanisms, at the level of
processes that are generally hidden from easy view."
-Eleanor Burke Leacock
"Every day one has to struggle that this love to a living humanity
transform itself into concrete acts, in acts that serve as examples, as
motivation."
-Ernesto "Che" Guevara
"Mask no difficulties."
-Amilcar Cabral
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