The end of Iraq
Subtitle: how American incompetence created a war without end
By: Peter W. Galbraith
Publisher: Pocket
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9781416526254
Subjects: Iraq War, 2003-2011; History; Postwar reconstruction; Civil war; Prevention; Politics and government; Military relations; Ethnic relations; Golfoorlog (2003); Bezettingen; Verval (geschiedenis); Verzet; 15.75 history of Asia
Description: The invasion of Iraq by American, British and other coalition forces has indeed transformed the Middle East, but not as the Bush and Blair administrations had imagined. It is Iran, not Western-style democracy, that has emerged as the big winner, creating a Tehran-Baghdad axis that would have been unthinkable before the war. THE END OF IRAQ is the definitive account of the US and UK's catastrophic involvement in Iraq, as told by America's leading independent expert on the country. Peter Galbraith reveals in exquisite detail how US policies -- some going back to the Reagan administration -- have now produced a nearly independent Kurdistan in the north, an Islamic state in the south, and uncontrollable insurgency in the centre, and an incipient Sunni-Shiite civil war that has Baghdad as its central front. Iraq, Galbraith argues, cannot be reconstructed as a single state. Instead, a sensible strategy must accept that it has already broken up and focus instead on stopping an escalating civil war. -- Publisher description.
Notes: Originally published: London: Simon & Schuster, 2006.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The appointment in Samarra; title: - Appeasement; title: - He gassed his own people; title: - The uprising; title: - Arrogance and ignorance; title: - Aftermath; title: - Can't provide anything; title: - Kurdistan; title: - Civil War; title: - The three state solution; title: - How to get out of Iraq.