The Greatest Threat Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction, and the Crisis of Global Security Reprint Edition

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The Greatest Threat is the \"brutally candid\" inside story of the West\'s failure to stop Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein from building weapons of mass destruction (Booklist). The West may face no greater enemy than Saddam, and yet, as Butler makes so clear in this riveting and troubling book, the West would rather ignore his regime than face the problem.As the head of UNSCOM, the special United Nations Commission assigned to inspect Iraq for weapons violations, Butler was the West\'s \"sheriff\" -- but his authority, and the world\'s security, was continually undermined from behind his back. Iraq was left armed and dangerous, to its own people, to the surrounding nations, and to the rest of the world.The trade paperback edition of The Greatest Threat has been updated with a new chapter on new developments in the world\'s relationship with Iraq.The Long Detour is an intellectually engaging overview of the history of socialism in the United States and its continuing relevance for today. Historian and journalist James Weinstein, a lifelong socialist and one-time Communist, takes readers from the movement\'s early years of utopian communities, though the heyday of engagement with the makers of corporate America, and into the future of our de-industrializing era. He argues that socialism, as a political movement, lost its way when Communist domination of the American left stifled social thought and diverted it into disputes over the true nature of the Soviet Union. Socialism is not dead, according to Weinstein; indeed, it is a vital force than can contribute to the growth of a political movement in the United States based on humane social principles, one that can once again play a positive role in our democratic development.