{"id":1495,"date":"2024-09-17T13:51:01","date_gmt":"2024-09-17T13:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/natharatmouchrika.net\/home\/?p=1495"},"modified":"2024-09-17T16:22:10","modified_gmt":"2024-09-17T16:22:10","slug":"fiasco-the-american-military-adventure-in-irak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/natharatmouchrika.net\/home\/?p=1495","title":{"rendered":"Fiasco The American Military adventure in Irak"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"itemFullText\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Author : Thomas E. Ricks<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Penguin Press, New York, 2006.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Part I<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Containment<\/p>\n<ol style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li>A bad Ending<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Spring 1991<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Exctract:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">President George W. Bush\u2019s decision to invade Irak in 2003 ultimately may come to be seen as one of the most profligate actions in the history of American foreign policy. The consequences of his choice won\u2019t be clear for decades, but it already is abundantly apparent in mid-2006 that the U.S government went to war in Irak with scant solid international support and on the basis of incorrect information-about weapons of mass destruction and a supposed nexus between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda\u2019s terrorism- and then occupied the country negligently. Thousands of U.S troops and untold number of Iraqis have died. Hundreds of billions of dollars have been spent, many of them squandered. Democracy may yet come to Iraq and the region, but so too may civil war or a regional conflagration, which in turn could lead to spiraling oil prices and a global economic shock.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This book\u2019s subtitle terms the U.S effort in Iraq an adventure in the critical sense of adventurism- that is, with the view that the U.S-led invasion was launched recklessly, with a flawed plan for war and a worse approach to occupation. Spooked by its own false conclusions about the threat, the Bush administration hurried its diplomacy, short-circuited its war planning, and assembled an agonizingly incompetent occupation. None of this was inevitable. It was made possible only through the intellectual acrobatics of simultaneously \u201cworst-casing\u201d the threat presented by Iraq while \u201dbest-casing\u201d the subsequent cost and difficulty of occupying the country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">How the U.S government could launch a preemptive war based on false premises is the subject of the first, relatively short part of this book. Blame must lie foremost with President Bush himself, but his incompetence and arrogance are only part of the story.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It takes more than one person to make a mess as big as Iraq. That is, Bush could only take such a careless action because of a series of systemic failures in the American system. Major lapses occurred within the national security bureaucracy, from a weak National Security Council (NSC) to an over-weening Pentagon and a confused intelligence apparatus. Larger failures of oversight also occurred in the political system, most notably in Congress, and in the inability of the media to find and present alternate sources of information about Iraq and the threat it did or didn\u2019t present to the United States. It is a tragedy in which every major player contributed to the errors, but in which the heroes tend to be anonymous and relatively powerless- the front-line American soldier doing his best in a difficult situation, the Iraqi civilian trying to care for a family amid chaos and violence. They are the people who pay every day with blood and tears for the failure of high officials and powerful institutions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The run-up to the war is particularly significant because it also laid the shaky foundation for the derelict occupation that followed, and that constitutes the major subject of this book. While the Bush administration-and especially Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, and L. Paul Bremer III-bear much of the responsibility for the mishandling of the occupation in 2003 and early 2004, blame also must rest with the leadership of the U.S military, who didn\u2019t prepare the U.S Army for the challenge it faced, and then wasted a year by using counterproductive tactics that were employed in unprofessional ignorance of the basic tenets of counterinsurgency warfare.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"clr\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"itemContentFooter\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author : Thomas E. Ricks The Penguin Press, New York, 2006. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Part I \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Containment A bad Ending Spring 1991 Exctract: President George W. Bush\u2019s decision to invade Irak in 2003 ultimately may come to be seen as one of the most profligate actions in the history of American foreign policy. 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