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

Galbraith, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0743295056 ISBN 13: 9780743295055

Publisher: 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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About the Author

Peter W. Galbraith served as the first Ambassador to Croatia from 1993 to 1998. He has also worked in East Timor for the UN, and has followed Middle East affairs closely since 1984. He has made fifteen trips to Iraq since 2003 and in 2005 observed Iraq's constitutional negotiations as a guest of the country's President.

Edition details

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0743295056
• ISBN 13: 9780743295055
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320