Who lost Iraq? This blame game will be the stuff of U.S. electoral politics for the next decade, but for now the military and diplomatic failings of the Bush administration have seemed explanation enough. A foolish venture in regime change morphed into a ruinous effort at nation building that now stands on the brink of nation collapse. The breadth of U.S. failure is the stuff (...)
September 28, 2007
Books
Anatomy of a Failure
The Occupation of IraqWinning the War, Losing the PeaceAli A. AllawiYale University Press, $28, 544 pp.
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