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| Author | Tariq Ali |
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| Language | English |
| Subjects | American politics,Barack Obama,American imperialism |
| Published | London |
| Publisher | Verso Books |
Publication date | October 2010 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | Print (hardcover and paperback) |
| Pages | 168 |
| ISBN | 9781844674497 |
The Obama Syndrome: Surrender at Home, War Abroad is a 2010 book byBritish-Pakistani writer, journalist, political activist and historianTariq Ali.
The book, described as "a merciless dissection of Obama's overseas escalation and domestic retreat", is strongly critical of thepresidency of Barack Obama. Ali argues little has changed sinceGeorge W. Bush left office, with appeasement of Israel continuing, genuine domestic reform abandoned, torture and drone strikes continuing and Wall Street being bailed out without reform.[1]
InThe Guardian, Stryker Maguire, editor ofLSE Review, wrote "I was prepared to dislike Ali'sThe Obama Syndrome: Surrender at Home, War Abroad more than I did in the end", and "stripped of itsGore Vidal-school tendentiousness, the book has some reasonable things to say about the Obama presidency",[2] while in theNew York Journal of Books, the reviewer wrote "Ali’s progressive stance confronts the illusions sold to voters in 2008 by a compliant media and capitalist firms".[3]
