The Reckoning: Iraq and the Legacy of Saddam HusseinW. W. Norton & Company, 2002 - Всего страниц: 415 The reckoning is an account of the forces--historical, religious, ethnic, and political--that produced Saddam Hussein's dictatorship. Iraq was forged after World War I from the Mesopotamian region of the collapsed Ottoman Empire, and its people have never had a national identity or a sense of a common purpose. Hussein, ruling by terror, 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, the country could be the site of conflict even more vicious than the Balkan wars. |
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... began in Riyadh , Saudi Arabia , where I arrived in 1978 at the height of the oil boom and lived until the mid - 1980s . As a freelance journalist , I wrote about the effects of the money let loose by the explosion of oil prices in 1973 ...
... began in Riyadh , Saudi Arabia , where I arrived in 1978 at the height of the oil boom and lived until the mid - 1980s . As a freelance journalist , I wrote about the effects of the money let loose by the explosion of oil prices in 1973 ...
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... began to research this book that I returned to the Arab side of the Gulf . I stepped into Iraq in 1998 to find the country a ghost of the Iraq of the late 1970s . The Iraqis had been devastated by two wars - the eight - year - long ...
... began to research this book that I returned to the Arab side of the Gulf . I stepped into Iraq in 1998 to find the country a ghost of the Iraq of the late 1970s . The Iraqis had been devastated by two wars - the eight - year - long ...
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... began to escalate . The infusion of new money had brought marginal improvement on the physical side . I saw more medicine , more consumer goods , more infrastructure improvements , all made possible by the combination of increased oil ...
... began to escalate . The infusion of new money had brought marginal improvement on the physical side . I saw more medicine , more consumer goods , more infrastructure improvements , all made possible by the combination of increased oil ...
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