IRAQ. Patrick Cockburn

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СКАЧАТЬ VIOLENT, DIVIDED, BUT HOPEFUL

       AMERICA LOWERS THE FLAG

       TOXIC LEGACY OF US ASSAULT ON FALLUJAH

       US UNABLE TO ACCOUNT FOR BILLIONS OF IRAQ OIL MONEY

       GRIM STABILITY IS THE US LEGACY

       ECHOS OF EL SALVADOR IN TALES OF US APPROVED DEATH SQUADS

       THE US WITHDRAWS (2011)

       BEWARE YOUR ENEMY’S STUPIDITY

       CAN WE EVER BE TRULY SAFE FROM TERRORISM?

       BIN LADEN WAS THE REASON WE WENT TO WAR, RIGHT?

       AMERICA SILENCES A KEY AL-QA’IDA PROPAGANDIST

       ARAB AWAKENING WILL NOT SUCCEED EAST OF EGYPT

       FALL OF LIBYA WAS A PIECE OF CAKE COMPARED TO SYRIA

       IRAQ GETS READY FOR LIFE AFTER AMERICA

       ‘GREATEST STRATEGIC DISASTER’ (2012)

       IS THIS THE FINAL DISINTEGRATION OF IRAQ?

       IRAN INCREASES HOLD IN IRAQ

       WHAT NEXT FOR AL-QA’IDA?

       AMERICAN MIDDLE EAST INFLUENCE IS PAST ITS PEAK

       A NATION IN CRISIS (2013)

       DISINTEGRATING AS A COUNTRY

       CITY OF CORRUPTION

       THE SUNNI RISE AGAIN

       THE SHIA ARE IN OFFICE BUT NOT IN POWER

       IRAQ’S KURDS STRIKE IT RICH

       A DISASTER WAITING TO REPEAT ITSELF

       CONFRONTING ISIS (2014)

       ANARCHY IN IRAQ

       IRAN MAKES ITS MOVE

       HOW SAUDIS HELPED ISIS TAKE OVER NORTHERN IRAQ

       OBAMA SENDS BOMBERS INTO IRAQ

       SUNNIS AND KURDS REJOICE AS HATED AL-MALAKI RESIGNS

       AIR POWER IS NOT ENOUGH TO WIN THIS WAR

       THE LAST CHRISTIANS IN IRAQ

       IRAN JOINS THE ‘GREAT SATAN’S’ WAR ON ISIS

       THE WEST NEEDS MORE THAN A WHITE KNIGHT

       FROM HOPE TO HORROR (2015)

       WRONG AGAIN IN THE FIGHT AGAINST TERROR

       ISIS: ONE YEAR ON

       WHO IS STRONG ENOUGH TO FIGHT ISIS?

       ARE DRONE EXECUTIONS WORKING?

       NATIONAL LOYALTY IS IN RUINS IN IRAQ AND SYRIA

       ON THE MIDDLE EAST, DONALD HAS IT RIGHT

       HILLARY CLINTON IS GUILTY, BUT NOT AS CHARGED

       A NEW TYPE OF WARFARE

       THE PARTITION OF THE MIDDLE EAST

       CONSTANT CYCLE OF VIOLENCE (2016)

       ISIS BOMBS

       ISIS CAN ONLY BE CRUSHED IN IRAQ IF DEFEATED IN SYRIA

       LACK OF OIL REVENUE MAY RUIN IRAQ BEFORE ISIS

       MEDIA COVERAGE IS MASKING DISASTEROUS POLICIES

       CORRUPTION PAVED THE WAY FOR ISIS

       SHAKING THE FOUNDATIONS OF IRAQ’S GOVERNMENT

       AFTERWORD

       CHILCOT INQUIRY SUMS IT UP

       PHOTO CAPTIONS AND COPYRIGHTS

FOREWORD

      It is over 13 years since the start of the war in Iraq which led to the toppling of Saddam Hussein. The diplomatic map of the world has been redrawn as a consequence. Inquiry after inquiry has studied the legality of the conflict. Political reputations have been made and lost. But what of Iraq itself and the rest of the Middle East? What has been the impact of the West on Iraq and the region as a whole? Who have been the winners? Who have been the losers? In what direction is the region headed?

      A remarkable feature of the wider Middle East over the past 15 years has been that the most radical instruments of change have been the US and its allies, such as Saudi Arabia and the Gulf monarchies, which should have had the greatest interest in maintaining the status quo.

      Provoked by 9/11, a US-led coalition overthrew the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001 and Saddam Hussein in Iraq in 2003. The West had disposed of two of Iran’s worst enemies without Iran having to lift a finger.

      In 2011 the West, led by the US and Sunni states, saw the uprisings in the Arab world as a chance to get rid of regimes with whom they were at odds. The war in Syria was an opportunity to weaken Iran by eliminating its biggest ally in the Arab world. Instead the war, and likewise the one in Yemen, may end up doing more damage to Iran's rivals such as Saudi Arabia, Turkey and the Gulf monarchies.

      Patrick Cockburn, The Independent's internationally acclaimed foreign correspondent and 2015 British Foreign Affairs Journalist of the Year, has analyzed and reported extensively on the Middle East and Saddam's former empire in hundreds of articles since 2001. The best of Patrick Cockburn’s analysis and commentary is compiled in this book, providing first-hand insight into what is really happening in this critical region of our world.

MESSING-UP THE MIDDLE EAST (2003-2006)

      USS Abraham Lincoln, site of President Bush’s “Mission Accomplished” speech on 1 May 2003

      Thursday, 24 July 2003

CHAOS AND RAGE

      There used to be a mosaic of President George H W Bush on the floor at the entrance to the al-Rashid Hotel in Baghdad. It was placed there soon after the first Gulf War in 1991 and was a good likeness, though the artist gave Bush unnaturally jagged teeth and a slightly sinister grimace. The idea was that nobody would be able to get into the hotel, where most foreign visitors to Iraq stayed in the 1990s, without stepping on Bush's face. The mosaic did not long survive the capture of the city on СКАЧАТЬ