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Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq

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Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to IraqChilling and often scathing detail . . . Should be read by anyone interested in understanding why the United States' quick military victory has given way to an increasingly virulent insurgency. The New York Times In the fall of 2003, Stanford professor Larry Diamond received a call from Condoleezza Rice, asking if he would spend several months in Baghdad as an adviser to the American occupation authorities. Diamond had not been a supporter of the war

Chilling--and often scathing--detail . . . Should be read by anyone interested in understanding why the United States' quick military victory has given way to an increasingly virulent insurgency.--The New York Times

In the fall of 2003, Stanford professor Larry Diamond received a call from Condoleezza Rice, asking if he would spend several months in Baghdad as an adviser to the American occupation authorities. Diamond had not been a supporter of the war in Iraq, but he felt that the task of building a viable democracy was a worthy goal. But when he went to Iraq, his experiences proved to be more of an education than he bargained for.

Squandered Victory is Diamond's provocative and vivid account of how the American effort to establish democracy in Iraq was hampered not only by insurgents and terrorists but also by a long chain of miscalculations, missed opportunities, and acts of ideological blindness that helped assure that the transition to independence would be neither peaceful nor entirely democratic. And in a new Afterword for the paperback edition, Diamond shows how the ongoing instability in Iraq is a direct result of the shortsighted choices made during the fourteen months of the American occupation and the subsequent Iraqi interim government.

A forceful and detailed critique of the invasion's aftermath. . . . A searing indictment. --The Wall Street Journal

Larry Diamond has a flair for making incisive points at the right moment. . . . Squandered Victory] explodes with the frustrations he felt working for the U.S. occupation. --The New Republic



Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Published: 03/21/2006
ISBN: 9780805080087
Pages: 395
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.00d

Review Citations: New York Times 07/10/2005 pg. 8
New York Times 05/28/2006 pg. 20
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