Draper Robert To Start a War: How the Bush Administration Took America Into Iraq 9780525561040

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Автор: Draper Robert
Название: To Start a War: How the Bush Administration Took America Into Iraq
ISBN: 9780525561040
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Классификация: ISBN-10: 0525561048
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 496
Вес: 0.76 кг.
Дата издания: 28.07.2020
Язык: English
Размер: 168 x 243 x 41
Подзаголовок: How the bush administration took america into iraq
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Поставляется из: США
Описание: From the author of the New York Times bestseller Dead Certain comes the definitive, revelatory reckoning with arguably the most consequential decision in the history of American foreign policy--the decision to invade Iraq.

Even now, after more than fifteen years, it is hard to see the invasion of Iraq through the cool, considered gaze of history. For too many people, the damage is still too palpable, and still unfolding. Most of the major players in that decision are still with us, and few of them are not haunted by it, in one way or another. Perhaps its that combination, the passage of the years and the still unresolved trauma, that explains why so many protagonists opened up so fully for the first time to Robert Draper.

Drapers prodigious reporting has yielded scores of consequential new revelations, from the important to the merely absurd. As a whole, the book paints a vivid and indelible picture of a decision-making process that was fatally compromised by a combination of post-9/11 fear and paranoia, rank na vet , craven groupthink, and a set of actors with id es fixes who gamed the process relentlessly. Everything was believed; nothing was true. The intelligence failure was comprehensive. Drapers fair-mindedness and deep understanding of the principal actors suffuse his account, as does a storytelling genius that is close to sorcery There are no cheap shots here, which makes the ultimate conclusion all the more damning. In the spirit of Barbara Tuchmans The Guns of August and Marc Blochs Strange Defeat, To Start A War will stand as the definitive account of a collective process that arrived at evidence that would prove to be not just dubious but entirely false, driven by imagination rather than a quest for truth--evidence that was then used to justify a verdict that led to hundreds of thousands of deaths and a flood tide of chaos in the Middle East that shows no signs of ebbing.

To Start a War: How the Bush Administration Took America Into Iraq, Draper Robert