Bush's Barbecue. "Howard's War" by Alison Broinowski [review]
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2003-10
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Altman, Dennis
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Australian Book Review
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To write a political polemic requires both acidic wit and the ability to recognise the limits of one’s case, neither of which is Broinowski’s forte. Her case is stronger now than when, a few months ago, she finished what must have been a remarkable feat of quick writing, and her warnings that the war will only unleash greater discontents and suffering seem prescient. I am in agreement with at least eighty per cent of her critique. Still, reading "Howard’s War" left me strangely dissatisfied.
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Australian, Book Reviews, Publishing, Scribe, war in Iraq, Saddam Hussein, John Howard, George W. Bush, US alliance, Cold War, United States, Americans, CNN, Poland, Thomas Paine, ASEAN, Malaysia, Vietnam, Burma, wheat sales, Bush administration, About Face: Asian Accounts of Australia, Canada, Melbourne Writers' Festival, Festival of Ideas, Adelaide, Dennis Altman
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Altman, Dennis 2003. Bush's Barbecue. Reveiw of "Howard's War" by Alison Broinowski. 'Australian Book Review', No 255, October, 19-20.