Defeat: why the Americans and British lost Iraq
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Counterpoint
2008
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references |
| Physical Description: | 290 S. |
| ISBN: | 9781582434032 1582434034 |
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| adam_text | Contents
Introduction
1
I Iraq Without Iraqis
7
II Arab Anguish
25
III Creating Resistance: The Sunnis
49
IV Creating Resistance: The Shias
71
V Leave in Time or Get Bogged Down
109
VI Creating Resistance: Humiliation and Death
137
VII
Britain and Basra
159
VIII
Sectarian Conflict: Who s to Blame?
193
IX The Farce of Sovereignty
227
Conclusion
245
Notes
255
Bibliography
271
Index
279
George W.
Bush s failure to provide
Iraqis with the democracy and
security he promised his invasion
would give them has become
undeniable, and one question dominates
Washington and London: why? In this
controversial new book, award-winning
journalist Jonathan Steele provides a
compelling challenge to the conventional
wisdom that the problem was one of
inadequate planning. Bush and Tony Blair, he
argues, were defeated from the day they decided
to occupy the country. Iraq had had enough of
foreign armies. Steele describes the memories of
centuries of humiliations that have scarred the
Iraqi national psyche, creating a powerful and
deeply felt nationalism. Drawing on his unique
access to senior Western policymakers, Steele
shows how the key players in the occupying
coalition failed to inform themselves about this
smouldering backhistory of resentment and
suspicion, or even to grasp the basic mindset of
the people they were attempting to rule, neatly
summarized by a young man he meets in
Fallujah: We are Iraqis. Our dignity is more
important than our lives.
Having conducted extensive interviews
with ordinary Iraqis
—
Shia,
Sunni,
and Kurd,
religious and secular, middle class and poor
—
Steele shows for the first time how the staging
posts of the conflict so familiar to Western
newspaper readers were seen by the Iraqis
themselves. Turning a searchlight onto the
foreign policy establishments of Britain and
America, he looks at why they failed to realize
that the post-Saddam vacuum would be filled
by Islamists, not pro-Western secularists. With
the sectarian conflict intensifying, Steele delves
into confidential sources to reveal the processes
and arguments which led to Britain effectively
handing over control of the South to Iranian-
backed Shia militias.
Blending vivid reportage, informed analysis
and sweeping historical narrative, Defeat is the
definitive
anatom}·
of an epic catastrophe.
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Contents
Introduction
1
I Iraq Without Iraqis
7
II Arab Anguish
25
III Creating Resistance: The Sunnis
49
IV Creating Resistance: The Shias
71
V Leave in Time or Get Bogged Down
109
VI Creating Resistance: Humiliation and Death
137
VII
Britain and Basra
159
VIII
Sectarian Conflict: Who's to Blame?
193
IX The Farce of Sovereignty
227
Conclusion
245
Notes
255
Bibliography
271
Index
279
George W.
Bush's failure to provide
Iraqis with the democracy and
security he promised his invasion
would give them has become
undeniable, and one question dominates
Washington and London: why? In this
controversial new book, award-winning
journalist Jonathan Steele provides a
compelling challenge to the conventional
wisdom that the problem was one of
inadequate planning. Bush and Tony Blair, he
argues, were defeated from the day they decided
to occupy the country. Iraq had had enough of
foreign armies. Steele describes the memories of
centuries of humiliations that have scarred the
Iraqi national psyche, creating a powerful and
deeply felt nationalism. Drawing on his unique
access to senior Western policymakers, Steele
shows how the key players in the occupying
coalition failed to inform themselves about this
smouldering backhistory of resentment and
suspicion, or even to grasp the basic mindset of
the people they were attempting to rule, neatly
summarized by a young man he meets in
Fallujah: "We are Iraqis. Our dignity is more
important than our lives."
Having conducted extensive interviews
with ordinary Iraqis
—
Shia,
Sunni,
and Kurd,
religious and secular, middle class and poor
—
Steele shows for the first time how the staging
posts of the conflict so familiar to Western
newspaper readers were seen by the Iraqis
themselves. Turning a searchlight onto the
foreign policy establishments of Britain and
America, he looks at why they failed to realize
that the post-Saddam vacuum would be filled
by Islamists, not pro-Western secularists. With
the sectarian conflict intensifying, Steele delves
into confidential sources to reveal the processes
and arguments which led to Britain effectively
handing over control of the South to Iranian-
backed Shia militias.
Blending vivid reportage, informed analysis
and sweeping historical narrative, Defeat is the
definitive
anatom}·
of an epic catastrophe. |
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