The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War without End - Couverture rigide

Galbraith, Peter

 
9780743295055: The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War without End
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ISBN 10 : 0743295056 ISBN 13 : 9780743295055
Editeur : Simon & Schuster Ltd, 2006

Synopsis

The invasion of Iraq by American, British and other coalition forces has indeed transformed the Middle East, but not as the Bush and Blair administrations had imagined. It is Iran, not Western-style democracy, that has emerged as the big winner, creating a Tehran-Baghdad axis that would have been unthinkable before the war. "The End of Iraq" is the definitive account of the US and UK's catastrophic involvement in Iraq, as told by America's leading independent expert on the country. Peter Galbraith reveals in exquisite detail how US policies - some going back to the Reagan administration - have now produced a nearly independent Kurdistan in the north, an Islamic state in the south, and uncontrollable insurgency in the centre, and an incipient Sunni-Shiite civil war that has Baghdad as its central front. Iraq, Galbraith argues, cannot be reconstructed as a single state. Instead, a sensible strategy must accept that it has already broken up and focus instead on stopping an escalating civil war. Unflinching, accessible and powerful, "The End of Iraq" explores and explains the myriad mistakes and false assumptions that have brought the country to its current pass, and what must be done to prevent further bloodshed.

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The invasion of Iraq by American, British and other coalition forces has indeed transformed the Middle East, but not as the Bush and Blair administrations had imagined. It is Iran, not Western-style democracy, that has emerged as the big winner, creating a Tehran-Baghdad axis that would have been unthinkable before the war.
THE END OF IRAQ is the definitive account of the US and UK's catastrophic involvement in Iraq, as told by America's leading independent expert on the country. Peter Galbraith reveals in exquisite detail how US policies -- some going back to the Reagan administration -- have now produced a nearly independent Kurdistan in the north, an Islamic state in the south, and uncontrollable insurgency in the centre, and an incipient Sunni-Shiite civil war that has Baghdad as its central front. Iraq, Galbraith argues, cannot be reconstructed as a single state. Instead, a sensible strategy must accept that it has already broken up and focus instead on stopping an escalating civil war.
Unflinching, accessible and powerful, THE END OF IRAQ explores and explains the myriad mistakes and false assumptions that have brought the country to its current pass, and what must be done to prevent further bloodshed.

Description

‘Peter W. Galbraith is a former American ambassador, senate staffer and academic who did much to highlight Saddam Hussein’s genocidal campaign against the Kurds back in the 1980s, and has been in and out of Iraq ever since. In other words, he knows more than most westerners about the country, and maybe five million percent more than any member of the Bush administration’
Max Hastings, Sunday times
‘Galbraith is nothing if not authoritative… the book is a mine of information…Galbraith catalogues the waste and corruption of huge amounts of money intended for Iraqi renewal’
Tribune 25/8
'In a highly readable and personal story, Galbraith applauds the liberation of the Shia majority in Iraq from centuries of oppression and celebrates that the Kurds are 'on the cusp of achieving their own state.' But he believes that the main error has been 'unrealistic and futile commitment to preserving the unity of a state that was never a voluntary creation of its people, and that has been held together by force'"
Literary Review, December '06 issue

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Éditeur
Simon & Schuster Ltd
Date d'édition
2006
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0743295056
ISBN 13 
9780743295055
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
320
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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