No End in Sight: Iraq’s Descent into Chaos

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“A … chronicle of the reasons behind Iraq’s descent into guerrilla war, warlord rule, criminality, and anarchy … It features candid interviews with high-ranking officials … as well as Iraqi civilians, American soldiers, intelligence officers, and prominent analysts… Together, these voices reveal the principal errors of U.S. policy — using insufficient troop levels, allowing the looting of Baghdad, purging professionals from the Iraq government, and disbanding the Iraqi military — errors that largely created the insurgency and chaos that engulf Iraq today. The book brings the movie up-to-date by evaluating the military’s recent ‘surge’ tactic as well as current administration policy. It concludes with a wide-ranging debate on the crucial question: what do we do now?”–P. [4] of cover.