RaveThe Guardian... [an] important book, a superb piece of reporting which cumulatively grows into a major political work, part polemic, part moral philosophy ... Each case is examined in brutally exhaustive detail, almost defying the reader to proceed without a sense of collective guilt at the consequences of inaction, not just from the US, her central target, but among its supposedly civilised Western allies ... Amid her righteous anger, Power unwittingly allies herself with the neo-conservatives now calling the shots in Washington, with such apparent influence on our own moral crusader of a Prime Minister. Many of her arguments are uncomfortably unilateralist; she does not specifically say so, but they tend towards the kind of intervention which recently took place in Iraq, if too late and for all the wrong reasons ... Power\'s book makes a major contribution to that debate and is required reading for anyone inclined to take part.
