美国如何在伊拉克战败 HOW AMERICA LOST IRAQ
内容摘要 · · · · · ·
Starred Review. The failure of the American adventure in Iraq is all the more tragic for its promising beginnings, according to this engrossing memoir of the occupation and insurgency. Glantz, a correspondent for the progressive Pacifica radio network, arrived in Iraq immediately after the fall of Baghdad. Against his editors' expectations, he discovered that, although tried by the chaos and lack of basic services, most Iraqis applauded the United States for overthrowing Saddam Hussein. Returning in 2004, he found that goodwill squandered, as Iraqis grew increasingly angry at the continuing absence of electricity and clean water, high unemployment, anarchy in the streets and mass imprisonment of innocent people by American soldiers who couldn't tell insurgents from civilians. With the brutal sieges of Fallujah and Najaf in April 2004, Glantz contends, the transformation of the United States in the eyes of Iraqis from liberator to oppressor was complete. Glantz's account is full of interviews with ordinary Iraqis, and from their evolving thoughts and experiences he builds a critique of the many American misconceptions about Iraq, one that castigates equally the left's knee-jerk preconceptions, the occupation authorities' cluelessness and heavy-handed misrule and the media's lack of interest in the suffering of Iraqis. The result is a nuanced and hard-hitting indictment. Agent, Michael Bourret at Dystel & Goderich Literary Management. (May)图书目录 · · · · · ·
PART ONE: AFTER THE FALL1. Entering After the Fall
2. The Unpopular Resistance
3. Nightly Arguments
4. Civilian Casualties
5. A Dysfunctional Occupation
PART TWO: THE OCCUPATION DRAGS ON
6. Welcome to Iraqi Kurdistan
7. Peshmerga in Control, Refugees in Camps
8. Changing Attitudes About Terror
9．America Becomes the Enemy
10. Fundamentalists Unite
PART THREE: WHEN AMERICA LOSTIRAQ
11. The Closure of Al-Hawza Newspaper
12. The War Begins
13. Apache Helicopter Strikes
14. It's Not Safe to Go Outside
15. America's Mass Grave
16. Kidnap Dramas
PART FOUR: BRUTALITY BECOMES THE NORM
17. Return from Kurdistan
18. Brutality Becomes the Norm
19. Dead Sheiks in Babylon
20. Victory Rises Above a Mass Grave
PART FIVE: TOWARD A BETTER FUTURE
21. Kindergarten Cop
EPILOGUE: Elections and Beyond
APPENDIX: Historic and Political Figures