Defeat : why America and Britain lost Iraq / Jonathan Steele.
By: Steele, Jonathan.
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956.05 SMI The strong horse : | 956.1/01 Ottoman Empire and Islamic tradition / | 956.7041 Inventing Iraq : | 956.7044/3 Defeat : | 956.913 The Middle East on the eve of modernity : | 956.9400 One Palestine, complete : | 956.940 One Palestine, complete : |
include bibliography, index
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.
Describes how the Bush and Blair administrations failed to account for the military past of Iraq and nationalist feelings of Iraqis before the 2003 invasion, and how this failure led to the drawn-out civil conflict within the country after the fall of Saddam Hussein.
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