The long road to Baghdad
Subtitle: a history of U.S. foreign policy from the 1970s to the present
By: Lloyd C. Gardner.
Publisher: New Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781595580757
Subjects: Iraq War, 2003- -- Causes.; United States -- Politics and government -- 2001-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Contents; title: Introduction; title: Beyond Baghdad; title: the Sacred metaphor of "making progress"; title: Zbig at the khyber pass, or the last flight of the Persian rug; title: the first Gulf War, in which the "realists" make their last stand; title: The end of history, in which the theory and practice; title: Conflict; title: axis of evil, in which the nation's enemies are revealed; title: Shock and awe, in which we learn how some democracies go to War; title: The occupation, in which we learn what followed shock and awe; title: The dream dies hard, in which the administration loses the mandate of the people; title: What lies ahead, in which the meaning of the war is revealed; title: Notes; title: Index.