This book recounts how the United States set about changing the history of the Middle East and became ensnared in a guerrilla war in Iraq. It brings to life the people and ideas that created the Bush administration's war policy and led America to the Assassins' Gate--the main point of entr...

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Main Author:	Packer, George 1960- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2005
Edition:	1. ed.
Subjects:	Politik Iraq War, 2003- Insurgency > Iraq Civil war > Iraq Iraq War, 2003- > Occupied territories Americans > Iraq Besatzungspolitik Rebellion Golfkrieg > 2003 Irak USA Iraq > Politics and government > 2003- United States > Politics and government > 2001-
Online Access:	Table of contents Inhaltsverzeichnis
Summary:	This book recounts how the United States set about changing the history of the Middle East and became ensnared in a guerrilla war in Iraq. It brings to life the people and ideas that created the Bush administration's war policy and led America to the Assassins' Gate--the main point of entry into the American zone in Baghdad. The consequences of that policy are shown in the author's reporting on the ground in Iraq for The New Yorker. We see up close the struggles of American soldiers and civilians and Iraqis from all backgrounds, thrown together by a war that followed none of the preconceived scripts. The book also describes the war in American life: the ideological battles in Washington, the ordeal of a fallen soldier's family, and the political culture of a country too polarized to realize such a vast and morally complex undertaking.--From publisher description.
Physical Description:	467 S.
ISBN:	0374299633 9780374299637