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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... attack on UN headquarters in Baghdad on August 19, 2003. After decades of suffering Saddam's tyranny, Iraqis wanted to assume responsibility for self-government immediately after liberation. When Bremer appointed the Iraqi Governing ...
... attack on UN headquarters in Baghdad on August 19, 2003. After decades of suffering Saddam's tyranny, Iraqis wanted to assume responsibility for self-government immediately after liberation. When Bremer appointed the Iraqi Governing ...
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... attacks gave Bush a defining mission. To defend the American homeland and U.S. global interests, the United States would retaliiate against failed states, such as Afghanistan, that provided sanctuary to al-Qaeda or other shadowy ...
... attacks gave Bush a defining mission. To defend the American homeland and U.S. global interests, the United States would retaliiate against failed states, such as Afghanistan, that provided sanctuary to al-Qaeda or other shadowy ...
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... attacked for the first time since the War of 1812. The American people felt an unprecedented sense of vulnerability ... attack on the Alliance. Bush concluded that the United States should aggressively prosecute a global war on terror ...
... attacked for the first time since the War of 1812. The American people felt an unprecedented sense of vulnerability ... attack on the Alliance. Bush concluded that the United States should aggressively prosecute a global war on terror ...
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... attacks also prompted a reevaluation of the overall U.S. se- curity strategy that had existed since the beginning of the Cold War. Bush came to believe that deterrence—the promise of massive retaliation against nations means nothing ...
... attacks also prompted a reevaluation of the overall U.S. se- curity strategy that had existed since the beginning of the Cold War. Bush came to believe that deterrence—the promise of massive retaliation against nations means nothing ...
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... attacks, George J. Tenet, the CIA director, presented Bush with a “Worldwide Attack Matrix” detailing ongoing or planned covert antiterrorism activities in eighty countries. Anxieties were fueled by anthrax mailings. Americans felt a ...
... attacks, George J. Tenet, the CIA director, presented Bush with a “Worldwide Attack Matrix” detailing ongoing or planned covert antiterrorism activities in eighty countries. Anxieties were fueled by anthrax mailings. Americans felt a ...
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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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