When a final accounting of the U.S. war in Iraq is toted up, we may learn why so many things went wrong. How did the best-equipped, most powerful army in the world sweep to victory and then so quickly lose control? How did astute politicians from Donald Rumsfeld to Colin Powell to John Kerry to Hillary Clinton so systematically miscalculate the consequences of going to war ag (...)
September 09, 2005
Books
Squandered Victory
Squandered VictoryThe American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to IraqLarry Diamond Times Books, $25, 384 pp.
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