Rogue State

Rogue State describes America's foreign policy (read regime change, interventionism, state sponsored terrorism and meddling in the affairs of sovereign countries) from the 1960s to the 1990s. The author worked for the US State Department during that period so you could call him the proverbial fly on the wall. The first four pages of the book detail facts that the average American is unlikely to know, however these pages provide the context for the "chickens coming home to roost" quote.

Did you know that:

• America is the ONLY country in the world to have been found guilty by the World Court for crimes against Nicaragua (read the Iran-Contra affair)
  
• every UN resolution pertaining to Israel has been vetoed or abstained by the good ol' US of A
• the CIA with the tacit approval of the US government carried out biological warfare against Cuba in order to try and wipe out their potato crop
• the CIA in collusion with the Belgian government were complicit in the assassination of Patrice Lumumba and bequeathed the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire), Mobutu Sese Seko - one of THE crimes of the 20th century
  
• the US government has carried out overt and covert operations (read regime change) against socially leaning democratically elected governments in Africa (from Angola to Zimbabwe) and Latin America

The analogy that comes to mind is the one about those who are born into wealth and those who acquire it later on. The latter are ostentatious and they make sure that everyone knows they have "made it".

OBL name checked this book last year, I can tell you I read it 5 years ago.

232 years after she came into existence, America has the chance to elect a candidate who has inspired millions of people in the US and around the world, and who through his own family background can be said to be truly representative of the diverse melting pot that is America today. Admittedly only 1 in 3 Americans eligible to vote in 2004 voted to give the present occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue a second term and we won't even talk about the hanging chads of 2000, but this time around will America vote Yes, We Can?