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"When I say liberals I certainly don’t mean openhanded individuals or tolerant persons or even Big Government Democrats. I mean people who are excited that one percent of the profits of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream goes to promote world peace." —from Give War a Chance |
In the spirit of his savagely funny and national best-seller Parliament of Whores, Give War a Chance is P. J. O’Rourke’s #1 New York Times best-selling follow-up. O’Rourke runs hilariously amok by tackling the death of Communism, sanctimonious liberals, and America’s perennial bad guy Saddam Hussein in a series of classic dispatches from his coverage of the 1991 Gulf War. Here is our most mordant and unnervingly funny political satirist on: Kuwait City after the Gulf War: “It looked like all the worst rock bands in the world had stayed there at the same time.” Saddam Hussein: “He’s got chemical weapons filled with . . . chemicals. Maybe he’s got The Bomb. And missiles that can reach Riyadh, Tel Aviv, Spokane. Stock up on nonperishable foodstuffs. Grab those Diet Coke cans you were supposed to take to the recycling center and fill them up with home heating oil. Bury the Hummel figurines in the yard. We’re all going to die. Details at eleven.” The collapse of communism: "A huge totalitarian system with all its tanks and guns, gulag camps and secret police, has been brought to its knees because nobody wants to wear Bulgarian shoes." |
