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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... al-Qaeda. Revelations that U.S. soldiers tortured detainees at Abu Ghraib eroded the virtuous claim that the United States went to war to end the era of torture chambers and mass graves. It is still too early to assess the final outcome ...
... al-Qaeda. Revelations that U.S. soldiers tortured detainees at Abu Ghraib eroded the virtuous claim that the United States went to war to end the era of torture chambers and mass graves. It is still too early to assess the final outcome ...
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... al-Qaeda or other shadowy terrorist networks. It would also act preemptively, targeting rogue regimes to prevent them from developing weapons of mass destruction (WMD), which could be used against the United States or given to terror ...
... al-Qaeda or other shadowy terrorist networks. It would also act preemptively, targeting rogue regimes to prevent them from developing weapons of mass destruction (WMD), which could be used against the United States or given to terror ...
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... al-Qaeda was harbored by the Taliban in Afghanistan, Chalabi argued that Iraq was more threatening in a dangerous world where, according to the seventeenth-century English philosopher Thomas Hobbes, “Life is war of all against all ...
... al-Qaeda was harbored by the Taliban in Afghanistan, Chalabi argued that Iraq was more threatening in a dangerous world where, according to the seventeenth-century English philosopher Thomas Hobbes, “Life is war of all against all ...
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... al-Qaeda and Iraq. According to Clarke, Rumsfeld complained about the poor selection of high-value targets in Afghanistan. “I don't want to put a million-dollar missile on a five-dollar tent.”16 “No, no. Al-Qaeda is in Afghanistan ...
... al-Qaeda and Iraq. According to Clarke, Rumsfeld complained about the poor selection of high-value targets in Afghanistan. “I don't want to put a million-dollar missile on a five-dollar tent.”16 “No, no. Al-Qaeda is in Afghanistan ...
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... al-Qaeda, the insinuation being that Saddam was behind the World Trade Center bombing of 1993. Press reports indicated that Mohammed Atta had met with an Iraqi agent in Prague just months before 9/11. Bush was convinced that “Iraq was ...
... al-Qaeda, the insinuation being that Saddam was behind the World Trade Center bombing of 1993. Press reports indicated that Mohammed Atta had met with an Iraqi agent in Prague just months before 9/11. Bush was convinced that “Iraq was ...
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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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