Iraq
Subtitle: a lost war
By: Mohamed El-Shibiny.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9780230103078
Subjects: Iraq War, 2003-
Description: Iraq: A Lost War deals with the impact of September 11th on the occupation of Iraq oand the U.S. declaration of war on international terrorism. It investigates whether war in Iraq was morally justified and whether coalition forces capturing and hanging its president were morally and legally acceptable internationally. The book further investigates the opinion of the U.N., E.U., and Islamic countries against the U.S. unilateral invasion of Iraq. Additionally, it investigates the abuse of power in U.S. military detentions that caused a rise in worldwide condemnation of the U.S. The book also explores how the ultra-conservative Islamic insurgents of Bin Laden penetrated Northern Iraq, which intended to lay out the ignition of civil-war between the two main religious sects there, namely Sunni and Shia. The book examines the steps taken in the democratization and reconstruction of a devastated Iraq while the author highlights that democracy in Iraq has to evolve from within the Iraqi people, their culture, their traditions, and their social values.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The impact of 9/11 on war in Iraq; title: World war with terrorism; title: Is the Iraq war justified?; title: Coalition forces captured Saddam Hussein; title: Global feeling against war in Iraq; title: The position of U.N. and E.U. toward war in Iraq; title: World/Islamic condemnation of Abu Gharib detention and abuse of power in Iraq; title: Toward accelerating transfer of power- from U.S occupation to Iraq government, a historical review; title: Danger of Islamic insurgents in Iraq; title: The ignition of civil war in Iraq; title: Democratization of Iraq; title: Is democracy in Iraq in flames?