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The Long Road to Baghdad
A History of U.S. Foreign Policy from the 1970s to the Present
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- English
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eBook - ePub
The Long Road to Baghdad
A History of U.S. Foreign Policy from the 1970s to the Present
About this book
The diplomatic historian examines the ideas, policies and actions that led from Vietnam to the Iraq War and America’s disastrous role in the Middle East.
“What will stand out one day is not George W. Bush’s uniqueness but the continuum from the Carter doctrine to ‘shock and awe’ in 2003.” —from The Long Road to Baghdad
In this revealing narrative of America’s path to its “new longest war,” one of the nation’s premier diplomatic historians excavates the deep historical roots of the US misadventure in Iraq. Lloyd Gardner’s sweeping and authoritative narrative places the Iraq War in the context of US foreign policy since Vietnam, casting the conflict as a chapter in a much broader story—in sharp contrast to the dominant narrative, which focus almost exclusively on the actions of the Bush Administration in the months leading up to the invasion.
Gardner illuminates a vital historical thread connecting Walt Whitman Rostow’s defense of US intervention in Southeast Asia, Zbigniew Brzezinski’s attempts to project American power into the “arc of crisis” (with Iran at its center), and the efforts of two Bush administrations, in separate Iraq wars, to establish a “landing zone” in that critically important region. Far more disturbing than a simple conspiracy to secure oil, Gardner’s account explains the Iraq War as the necessary outcome of a half-century of doomed US policies.
“A vital primer to the slow-motion conflagration of American foreign policy.” —Kirkus Reviews
“What will stand out one day is not George W. Bush’s uniqueness but the continuum from the Carter doctrine to ‘shock and awe’ in 2003.” —from The Long Road to Baghdad
In this revealing narrative of America’s path to its “new longest war,” one of the nation’s premier diplomatic historians excavates the deep historical roots of the US misadventure in Iraq. Lloyd Gardner’s sweeping and authoritative narrative places the Iraq War in the context of US foreign policy since Vietnam, casting the conflict as a chapter in a much broader story—in sharp contrast to the dominant narrative, which focus almost exclusively on the actions of the Bush Administration in the months leading up to the invasion.
Gardner illuminates a vital historical thread connecting Walt Whitman Rostow’s defense of US intervention in Southeast Asia, Zbigniew Brzezinski’s attempts to project American power into the “arc of crisis” (with Iran at its center), and the efforts of two Bush administrations, in separate Iraq wars, to establish a “landing zone” in that critically important region. Far more disturbing than a simple conspiracy to secure oil, Gardner’s account explains the Iraq War as the necessary outcome of a half-century of doomed US policies.
“A vital primer to the slow-motion conflagration of American foreign policy.” —Kirkus Reviews
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1: Beyond Baghdad: The Sacred Metaphor of āMaking Progressā
- 2: Zbig at the Khyber Pass, or the Last Flight of the Persian Rug
- 3: The First Gulf War, in Which the Realists Make Their Last Stand
- 4: The End(s) of History, in Which the Theory and Practice Conflict
- 5: Axis of Evil, in Which the Nationās Enemies Are Revealed
- 6: Shock and Awe, in Which We Learn How Some Democracies Go to War
- 7: The Occupation, in Which We Learn What Followed Shock and Awe
- 8: The Dream Dies Hard, in Which the Administration Loses the Mandate of the People
- 9: What Lies Ahead, in Which the Meaning of the War Is Revealed
- Notes
- Index