In this profound analysis of the political system prevailing in most of Latin America today, Comblin presents a provocative agenda for the churches. His searing critique is not only for Latin Americans but for all of us "who have ears to hear." "The influence of Jose Comblin is quite evident. He has been working hard here, and his book on the myth of national security, written in part while he was teaching at Harvard Divinity School, is widely known here. Liberation theologians apply the pope's statement about 'false ideologies' to the national security doctrine, brilliantly reversing the way the phrase is interpreted by the conservatives. A perfectly legitimate interpretation, too, since, as Comblin so devastatingly shows, national security is a doctrine, using ideas such as God, Christian civilization., and the rest to legitimate a deformed social order."