Review of <i>Ethics and Counterrevolution: American Involvement in Internal Wars</i>

Counterrevolution: American Involvement in Internal Wars in the immediate aftermath of the end of the Cold War.He argues against the misconception that revolutions ended with the Cold War.Johnson highlights U.S. involvement in Latin American revolutions and counterrevolutions as an effective synecdoche for harmful U.S. influence around the world-from the foundation of the country through the Red Scare.Johnson uses examples from his own professional experience and U.S. history grounded in Liberation Theology to argue for a new direction for U.S. foreign policy.This new direction centers the Hippocratic principle "do no harm" as a measure for how the U.S. interacts with other countries.Johnson writes not primarily for chaplains but "to encourage the opening of public debate about America's involvement in counterrevolutionary wars, a subject hitherto addressed covertly and furtively by a tiny elite.