'Nobody is entitled to view this battle as a spectator . . .' Regime Changeis the one essential book for anyone who wants to understand the greatest global crisis of the past decade, one that has bitterly divided public opinion across Britain - and around the world. Watching events unfold in the US and writing directly from Iraq, Christopher Hitchens cuts through the spin and slogans shaping popular through and tackles the fundamental questions. What was the true nature of Saddam's regime? Was this really Bush's war for oil? Was Blair principled or a poodle? Will our military action spark more terrorist attacks? Hitchens reports on the current crisis while at the same time emphasizing the historical perspective - that this war began when Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in 1990, only a few months after the fall of the Berlin wall. In this polemical, incendiary account, Hitchens offers hindsight on the rights and wrongs of an epochal war.
His Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies that Led to Vietnam, written in 1997, carried enormous resonance in the current war. He was unusually willing to challenge the military's ...
Iraq War covers all the background material necessary to understand the circumstances surrounding this particular military undertaking.
Jonathan S. Landay, "More Iraqis supporting resistance, CIA report says,” Knight Ridder Newspapers, November 11 2003. http://www.mcclatchydc.com/reports/intelligence/story/10108.html 176. Anthony Shadid, Night Draws Near, ...
Discusses life in Mesopotamia a long time ago where each city had its own king and there were always wars so life was tough and you could end up a slave.
German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said " A bad decision was taken : the choice of the logic of war has won over the chances for peace . French President Jacques Chirac , as expected , was » 22 » 23 22 « Wave of Protests , From Europe ...
Written in British English, In The Iraq War, significant events that shaped the war are explored, including the background to war, the clashes over weapons inspections, the fall of Saddam Hussein, the worsening violence inside Iraq, the ...
Examines the history, culture, and future of Iraq.
书名原文:The archaeology of mesopotamia
Conqueror follows upon the heels of conqueror, nations are overthrown and cities topple down into the dust, but the conditions of existence are unaltered and irresistibly they fashion the new age in the likeness of the old. “Amurath an ...
This report assesses the impact that Islamic State control and governance have on local economies in Iraq and Syria, offering detailed evidence of electricity shortages, refugee flows, and other changes in economic activity inside the ...