Defeat : why America and Britain lost Iraq / Jonathan Steele.
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Bangladesh Public Administration Training Centre Library General Reading Room | 327.1400567 STD 2008 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | Amirul | 96406 |
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327.117 BUE 2005 Emergence of terrorism : | 327.12 MIS 1984 The Missing dimension : governments and intelligence communities in the twentieth century / | 327.1243 WAU 1985 The ultimate enemy : British intelligence and Nazi Germany, 1933-1939 / | 327.1400567 STD 2008 Defeat : | 327.16 CON 1980 Conflict and intervention in the Third World / | 327.16 EUR 1993 The European community and SAARC / | 327.16 HOS 1979 Super powers and international conflict / |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-277) and index.
Introduction -- Iraq without Iraqis -- Arab anguish -- Creating resistance : the Sunnis -- Creating resistance : the Shias -- Leave in time or get bogged down -- Creating resistance : humiliation and death -- Britain and Basra -- Sectarian conflict: who's to blame? -- The farce of sovereignty -- Conclusion.
"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 new book, 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 humilations 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 his 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.""--BOOK JACKET.
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