ABSTRACT
Do extreme, unethical governmental policies often produce results opposite to those intended? This book considers the ironic outcomes of recent global events and concludes that there is a 'rule of reverse results' at work. While not a hard and fast law, the rule points out the increased probability that a policy will backfire if it is immoral while ethical policies, even if extreme, are unlikely to produce reverse results. The issue here is that of increased likelihood but not of certainty. Governments can never be sure as to the effects of their actions: to some extent they are always working in the dark. But if the motivation is right, moral and humane the policies will not often produce adverse results the opposite of those intended. Based on events in global history in the Twentieth and Twenty-First centuries the chapters can each be read individually, as well as being part of the argument.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |5 pages
Introduction
section |17 pages
Israel
chapter |15 pages
Israel has caused its own insecurity together with that of the USA
section |31 pages
Western intervention in Islamic states
chapter |10 pages
Bush and Blair opened Iraq to al-Qaeda and ISIS
chapter |8 pages
The West opened Libya to Islamic terrorism
section |16 pages
China and Russia
chapter |8 pages
Mao turned China capitalist
chapter |6 pages
Stalin caused the collapse of the Soviet Union
section |7 pages
The Second World War
chapter |4 pages
France helped cause the Second World War
chapter |1 pages
Churchill helped cause the Blitz
section |14 pages
Genocide
chapter |10 pages
Hitler and the Nazis created Israel
chapter |2 pages
Genocide backfired in Bosnia and Kosovo
section |4 pages
Massacres with apparently no reverse results
chapter |2 pages
Rwanda, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Darfur and ISIS
section |6 pages
Further unethical policies that have not produced reverse results
chapter |2 pages
American imperialism in Latin America – exception Cuba
chapter |2 pages
Recent European imperialism
section |24 pages
Peacemakers with positive results