"In a distinguished career in elite Ranger, Airborne and Special Forces counter-terrorist units, Stan Goff went to Vietnam, Guatemala, El Salvador, Grenada, Panama, Venezuela, Honduras, South Korea, Colombia, Peru, Somalia, and, in 1994, Haiti. There, he refused to turn away from the implications of his own experience. He chose to defy the contradictions between what the foreign policy establishment said and what the U.S. military did, and took sides with Haitian democratic forces over the U.S.-supported death squad apparatus. Conflict escalated with his men, who were steeped in racist, anti-Haitian propaganda, as well as with commanders, who depended on him to support a massive campaign of deception aimed at both the Haitian and American people.". "Hideous Dream is a revealing look inside U.S. foreign policy, inside the elite echelon of the Special Forces, and inside the racist history of American imperial domination of Haiti. It is also a deeply personal account of a man trapped between his emerging political consciousness and the cynical mandates of a professional soldier."--BOOK JACKET.