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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... . So do the Iraqi Kurds with whom I have worked closely for many years. Their sacrifice and the sacrifice of other Iraqis must not be in vain. INTRODUCTION The Tigris River swept us downstream until the boatman ix Acknowledgments.
... . So do the Iraqi Kurds with whom I have worked closely for many years. Their sacrifice and the sacrifice of other Iraqis must not be in vain. INTRODUCTION The Tigris River swept us downstream until the boatman ix Acknowledgments.
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... Kurdish fighters called peshmerga (“those who face death”). The peshmerga are revered in Kurdish so- ciety for their martyrdom in the struggle against Saddam Hussein. The commander of our security detail wore traditional baggy pants, a ...
... Kurdish fighters called peshmerga (“those who face death”). The peshmerga are revered in Kurdish so- ciety for their martyrdom in the struggle against Saddam Hussein. The commander of our security detail wore traditional baggy pants, a ...
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... Kurds, thousands of tons of chemical and biological weapons were used to attack as many as two hundred villages and towns in Iraqi Kurdistan.1 Up to 5,000 people died in Halabja that day. Soon after the Gulf War, I traveled with Karim ...
... Kurds, thousands of tons of chemical and biological weapons were used to attack as many as two hundred villages and towns in Iraqi Kurdistan.1 Up to 5,000 people died in Halabja that day. Soon after the Gulf War, I traveled with Karim ...
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... Kurdish control, the city is south of the 36th parallel and did not receive protection from Western aircraft patrolling the no-fly zone. The Kurds lived with insecurity born of the knowledge that Saddam's forces could attack at any time ...
... Kurdish control, the city is south of the 36th parallel and did not receive protection from Western aircraft patrolling the no-fly zone. The Kurds lived with insecurity born of the knowledge that Saddam's forces could attack at any time ...
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... control. A perverse paradox came to pass. Saddam had become the guarantor of Kurdish autonomy. As long as he remained in power, the U.S. and Britain would protect the Kurds. In the event of Saddam's removal, the Kurds' future 4 LOSING IRAQ.
... control. A perverse paradox came to pass. Saddam had become the guarantor of Kurdish autonomy. As long as he remained in power, the U.S. and Britain would protect the Kurds. In the event of Saddam's removal, the Kurds' future 4 LOSING IRAQ.
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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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