Losing Iraq: Inside the Postwar Reconstruction Fiasco
 

Losing Iraq: Inside the Postwar Reconstruction Fiasco

by David L. Phillips


Things didn't go wrong in postwar Iraq because the United States lacked a plan. Things went wrong because the United States was blinded by ideology and ignored planning that was already underway. Losing Iraq tells the story of the tragedy of Iraq, from the first discreet meetings to plan the political transition through the debacle the United States finally created. Losing Iraq is a... (read more)

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Interesting first hand account of a "true believer" recruited from Hoover Institution to go to Iraq, only to be startlingly disappointed at what he found there. One in a long line of good books chronicling mis-steps and incompetence of occupation...perhaps more weighty than some, since Phillips was not opposed to invasion/occupation before he went there.

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