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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... wanted to send a message, there would be no better time than during the PUK Congress the next day. Because I came from Washington, D.C., the Kurds assumed I was an official emissary of President George H. W. Bush. When I offered support ...
... wanted to send a message, there would be no better time than during the PUK Congress the next day. Because I came from Washington, D.C., the Kurds assumed I was an official emissary of President George H. W. Bush. When I offered support ...
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... wanted to cry with them, to reach out and comfort them. However, I knew they were not seeking my comfort or consolation. They wanted me to go home and tell their stories so that the world would know of their suffering and take ac- tion ...
... wanted to cry with them, to reach out and comfort them. However, I knew they were not seeking my comfort or consolation. They wanted me to go home and tell their stories so that the world would know of their suffering and take ac- tion ...
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... wanted to move immediately; however, Bush sided with Secretary of State Colin L. Powell in agreeing to give diplomacy a last chance. When Bush addressed the UN General Assembly on September 12, 2002, he invoked the memory of terror ...
... wanted to move immediately; however, Bush sided with Secretary of State Colin L. Powell in agreeing to give diplomacy a last chance. When Bush addressed the UN General Assembly on September 12, 2002, he invoked the memory of terror ...
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... wanted to hear. The OSD believed that after a brief transition period, authority could be handed over to an interim government dominated by Iraqi exiles. It thought that, after dismantling the Ba'ath Party, Iraq's technocrats would ...
... wanted to hear. The OSD believed that after a brief transition period, authority could be handed over to an interim government dominated by Iraqi exiles. It thought that, after dismantling the Ba'ath Party, Iraq's technocrats would ...
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... wanted a job. The United States limited the UN's postwar role by scorning the world body at the outset. Charged with irrelevance, the UN was wary of involvement. Though UN Secretary General Kofi Annan believed the war was illegal, he ...
... wanted a job. The United States limited the UN's postwar role by scorning the world body at the outset. Charged with irrelevance, the UN was wary of involvement. Though UN Secretary General Kofi Annan believed the war was illegal, he ...
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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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