Table of Contents
   Introduction
   The UN and International Relations Leading Up to Iraq
      Hope Is Not Enough
      A New Age of Liberal Imperialism?
      An Age of Genocide
      In Defense of Afro-Pessimism
      Lost Kosovo
      Goodbye, New World Order
   The Iraq War and its Aftermath
      The Lives They Lived: Collateral Damage
      The Specter of Imperialism: The Marriage of the Human Rights Left and the New Imperialist Right
      End of Empire
      The Way We Live Now: A Notion of War
      Were Sanctions Right?
      Blueprint for a Mess
      The Shiite Surge
   Afterword
   Acknowledgments
   Index