[lbo-talk] A new turn in US military strategy in Iraq?

Michael Pugliese michael.098762001 at gmail.com
Wed May 25 08:19:34 PDT 2005


On 5/25/05, Leigh Meyers <leighcmeyers at gmail.com> wrote:Have you ever considered that Christian Parenti is just another western social...

Oh brother. Then tell Amy Goodman never to have Christian on DN ever again.

Or Aaron Glantz either. How America Lost Iraq by Aaron Glantz http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1585424269/antiwarbookstore/103-6722946-3051833 Editorial Reviews
>From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. The failure of the American adventure in Iraq is all the more tragic for its promising beginnings, according to this engrossing memoir of the occupation and insurgency. Glantz, a correspondent for the progressive Pacifica radio network, arrived in Iraq immediately after the fall of Baghdad. Against his editors' expectations, he discovered that, although tried by the chaos and lack of basic services, most Iraqis applauded the United States for overthrowing Saddam Hussein. Returning in 2004, he found that goodwill squandered, as Iraqis grew increasingly angry at the continuing absence of electricity and clean water, high unemployment, anarchy in the streets and mass imprisonment of innocent people by American soldiers who couldn't tell insurgents from civilians. With the brutal sieges of Fallujah and Najaf in April 2004, Glantz contends, the transformation of the United States in the eyes of Iraqis from liberator to oppressor was complete. Glantz's account is full of interviews with ordinary Iraqis, and from their evolving thoughts and experiences he builds a critique of the many American misconceptions about Iraq, one that castigates equally the left's knee-jerk preconceptions, the occupation authorities' cluelessness and heavy-handed misrule and the media's lack of interest in the suffering of Iraqis. The result is a nuanced and hard-hitting indictment. Agent, Michael Bourret at Dystel & Goderich Literary Management. (May) Copyright (c) Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

-- Michael Pugliese



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