Pursuasively demonstrating that US policy in Central America is crucial to its role as world nuclear policeman, Chomsky argues for immediate disengagement from the area. Taking an historical perspective, he proves that the government, aided and abetted by the media and intellectuals, has escalated a military presence that cannot be in the interests of the American people, North or South. Vintage Chomsky, Turning the Tide brings together analytic rigour and passionate moral commitment.