An Overview: What Uncle Sam Really Wants

In What Uncle Sam Really Wants written by Noam Chomsky, he uses his prolific knowledge in the field of linguistics to vividly describe American foreign policy throughout the post World War II years. Renowned for research and dedication, “a brilliant distillation of the real motivations behind US foreign policy, compiled from talks, interviews … declassified government files, public policy, and geopolitical events.”(McChesney, 1985) Chomsky has written over forty political books and is the eighth most quoted individual of all time and number one living. Currently working at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology he has earned some twenty-six honorary degrees from some of the most prestigious schools around the globe; including Columbia University, Georgetown University, Cambridge University, and Harvard. Belonging to numerous highly educated, professional groups including American Academy of Arts and Sciences, National Academy of Sciences, American Philosophical Society he has won seemingly countless awards; the Distinguished Scientific Contribution American Psychological Association, the Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences, the Helmholtz Medal, the Dorothy Eldridge Peacemaker Award, the Ben Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science, twice winner of the Orwell Award and others. Having written many books on a slew of subjects this one in particular, What Uncle Sam Really Wants, is based on government foreign policy with chief goal of crushing the most serious threat of them all- Third World countries.

“How well have the precepts put forth by George Kennan been followed? How thoroughly have we put aside all concern for "vague and unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of the living standards, and democratization"?” Well, “in one high-level document after another, US planners stated their view that the primary threat to the new US-led world order was Third World nationalism -- sometimes called ultranationalism: "nationalistic regimes" that are responsive to "popular demand for immediate improvement in the low living standards of the masses" and production for domestic needs.” It is with these goals in mind that we justify, the world-wide, nothing short of, atrocities that we commit. After reading this book, it becomes