Mahmood Mamdani

Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War, and the Roots of Terror (2005)

A fine book on the results of two laws: that of “unintended consequences,” and that of “abysmally poor thought out planning.” Sketches out in painful detail the emergence of America as a country that has, at times, blithely rejected international law as having any say in American actions in the w...