The Reckoning: Iraq and the Legacy of Saddam HusseinW. W. Norton & Company, 2003 - Всего страниц: 427 To the dismay of many in the West, the Gulf War ended with Saddam Hussein still in control, still defiant, and more determined to use any means of striking back. How far did he go? And now that Afghanistan's ruling Taliban has been vanquished and the al Quaeda network scattered, how far should the United States go in pursuit of its war on terrorism? The central question posed in this book is whether a future Iraq without Saddam Hussein will be even more unstable and more problematical to the security of the United States. The Reckoning is an account of the forces--historical, religious, ethnic, and political--that produced Saddam's dictatorship. Forged after World War I from the Mesopotamian provinces of the collapsed Ottoman Empire, Iraq has never had a national identity or a sense of common purpose. Hussein, ruling by terror rather than by persuasion, pitted the various ethnic groups, religious interests, and tribes against one another and in so doing achieved the destruction of Iraq's middle class and civilized society. After he goes, however he goes, the country could be the site of conflict even more vicious than the Balkan wars. Now more than ever, the future of Iraq is of critical importance to America's dealings with the Muslim world, and Sandra Mackey's informed narrative gives us a new understanding of the politics and national character of the country. |
Результаты поиска по книге
Результаты 1 – 5 из 76
Стр. 12
... Iraqi . There is no conversation , only an exchange of banalities , which themselves are guarded and carefully weighed . The occasional and dangerous furtive comment quickly whispered is the only glimpse into the mind and soul of an Iraqi ...
... Iraqi . There is no conversation , only an exchange of banalities , which themselves are guarded and carefully weighed . The occasional and dangerous furtive comment quickly whispered is the only glimpse into the mind and soul of an Iraqi ...
Стр. 20
... Iraqi despot who promises to rid the Arabs of the hated pres- ence of Israel and the perceived domination of the United States is riding the high tide of oil prices . With a hundred billion barrels of oil reserves , second only to those ...
... Iraqi despot who promises to rid the Arabs of the hated pres- ence of Israel and the perceived domination of the United States is riding the high tide of oil prices . With a hundred billion barrels of oil reserves , second only to those ...
Стр. 23
... Iraqi military and the Iraqi people to " take mat- ters into their own hands " and rid themselves of the most hated man in the history of modern Iraq . On the last day of February , elements 7 New York Times , February 16 , 1991 ...
... Iraqi military and the Iraqi people to " take mat- ters into their own hands " and rid themselves of the most hated man in the history of modern Iraq . On the last day of February , elements 7 New York Times , February 16 , 1991 ...
Стр. 24
... Iraqi against Iraqi , the United States peered into a pool of chaos that once more tripped all images of American entrapment in Vietnam . The fury began early in the morning of February 28 , 1991 , the day the cease - fire stilled the ...
... Iraqi against Iraqi , the United States peered into a pool of chaos that once more tripped all images of American entrapment in Vietnam . The fury began early in the morning of February 28 , 1991 , the day the cease - fire stilled the ...
Стр. 32
Извините, доступ к содержанию этой страницы ограничен..
Извините, доступ к содержанию этой страницы ограничен..
Содержание
The Land between Two Rivers | 31 |
The Human Mosaic of Iraq | 58 |
The Improbable Country | 85 |
Three Kings Monarchical Iraq | 121 |
Identity in a Decade of Disorder | 156 |
The Triumph of the Baath | 198 |
The War of Identity | 235 |
Aggression and Rebellion | 267 |
Broken Babylon | 299 |
America between the Two Rivers | 336 |
The War of Containment | 354 |
The Road to Baghdad | 373 |
Afterword | 395 |
Selected Bibliography | 407 |
Index | 413 |
Другие издания - Просмотреть все
Часто встречающиеся слова и выражения
Abdul administration American Arab nationalism Arab nationalists Arab world Arabian Peninsula Arif arms Assyrian Baath Party Baath regime Baathist Babylon Baghdad Barzani Basra Bedouin began Britain British Bush caliph century Christian claim clerics Communists culture decade desert economic Egypt elite ethnic Euphrates Faisal forces foreign policy Gulf War identity ideology Iran Iran-Iraq Iran-Iraq War Iranian Iraq Iraq's Iraqi army Iraqi nationalism Israel Karbala Khomeini king Kurdish Kurdistan Kurds Kuwait land leader leadership Mecca Mesopotamia Middle East military monarchy Mosul mountains Muhammad mujtahids Muslim Najaf Nasser non-Arab numbers Nuri al-Said officers Ottoman Empire Palestine Palestinian pan-Arabism Persian Gulf political population president Qasim Quoted rebellion religious revolution Saddam Hussein sanctions Sassanian Saudi Arabia Security Council sheikhs Shia Islam shrine cities social society southern Iraq streets Sunni Arab Sunnis and Shia Syria territory Tigris tion tribal tribes tribesmen Turkey United Nations urban weapons