Losing Iraq: Inside the Postwar Reconstruction FiascoBasic Books, 28 апр. 2009 г. - Всего страниц: 304 According to conventional wisdom, Iraq has suffered because the Bush administration had no plan for reconstruction. That's not the case; the State Department's Future of Iraq group planned out the situation carefully and extensively, and Middle East expert David Phillips was part of this group. White House ideologues and imprudent Pentagon officials decided simply to ignore those plans. The administration only listened to what it wanted to hear. Losing Iraq doesn't't just criticize the policies of unilateralism, preemption, and possible deception that launched the war; it documents the process of returning sovereignty to an occupied Iraq. Unique, as well, are Phillips's personal accounts of dissension within the administration. The problems encountered in Iraq are troubling not only in themselves but also because they bode ill for other nation-building efforts in which the U.S. may become mired through this administration's doctrine of unilateral, preemptive war. Losing Iraq looks into the future of America's foreign policy with a clear-eyed critique of the problems that loom ahead. |
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... Iraq's draft constitution. After Dohuk, Karim and I went to Erbil for an emotional reunion. Karim had not seen his family since fleeing Iraq in 1972. When we walked in the door, it seemed as though they had been waiting for their son ...
... Iraq's draft constitution. After Dohuk, Karim and I went to Erbil for an emotional reunion. Karim had not seen his family since fleeing Iraq in 1972. When we walked in the door, it seemed as though they had been waiting for their son ...
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... Iraq, I came to appreciate how Saddam's authoritarian rule had suppressed simmering hostilities between Iraq's ethnic and religious groups. Kurds were wary of Arab Shi'a, whom they thought would transform Iraq into an Islamist state on ...
... Iraq, I came to appreciate how Saddam's authoritarian rule had suppressed simmering hostilities between Iraq's ethnic and religious groups. Kurds were wary of Arab Shi'a, whom they thought would transform Iraq into an Islamist state on ...
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... Iraq's future leader. Chalabi provided bogus intelligence on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction (WMD). He convinced the Pentagon that Iraqis would welcome coalition forces “with flowers.” When concerns were raised about chaos after ...
... Iraq's future leader. Chalabi provided bogus intelligence on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction (WMD). He convinced the Pentagon that Iraqis would welcome coalition forces “with flowers.” When concerns were raised about chaos after ...
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... Iraq's postwar transition. U.S. officials either ignored the advice of Iraqis or listened only to Iraqis who told them what they wanted to hear. The OSD believed that after a brief transition period, authority could be handed over to an ...
... Iraq's postwar transition. U.S. officials either ignored the advice of Iraqis or listened only to Iraqis who told them what they wanted to hear. The OSD believed that after a brief transition period, authority could be handed over to an ...
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... Iraqis as a puppet of the United States. Subsequently he named a committee to develop plans for drafting Iraq's constitution, but Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iraq's most respected Shi'a cleric, insisted that the constitution could be ...
... Iraqis as a puppet of the United States. Subsequently he named a committee to develop plans for drafting Iraq's constitution, but Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iraq's most respected Shi'a cleric, insisted that the constitution could be ...
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3 The Future of Iraq Project | 35 |
4 Interagency Relations | 41 |
5 Breaking the Ice | 45 |
6 The Principals Committee | 55 |
7 Ahmad Chalabi | 67 |
14 DeBaathification | 143 |
15 Occupation | 155 |
16 SelfRule | 169 |
17 The Interim Constitution | 185 |
18 Fighting on Two Fronts | 195 |
19 The Handover | 205 |
Epilogue | 215 |
Lessons in NationBuilding | 225 |
8 Wilton Park | 77 |
9 The Opposition Conference | 89 |
10 The Enemy of My Enemy | 103 |
11 A War Within a War | 111 |
12 Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance | 121 |
13 Basic Nihilistic Impulse | 133 |
Acronyms | 239 |
Timeline of Major Events | 241 |
Personalities | 247 |
Notes | 255 |
Index | 275 |
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