"Fallen, Fallen is Babylon the Great":The Iraq War as "The Biggest Western Foreign Policy Disaster" as Reflected in Gregory Burke s The Black Watch
Journal: Mediterranean Journal of Humanities
Year: 2016

The Iraq War which started in 2003 under the leadership of the U.S.A., the Bush administration, has entailed an irreparable loss, not only for Iraq as thousands of civilians died in the war, and chaos and disorder still prevail in the country, but also for the soldiers of the Scottish Black Watch regiment who, after they went to war, found themselves in "the Biggest Western Foreign Policy Disaster". This war, actually, began through a fiction formulated by the two contemporary Western imperialis