The dramatic insider account of why we invaded Iraq, the motivations that drove it, and the frustrations of those who tried and failed to stop it, leading to the most costly misadventure in US history.
It offers lessons urgently relevant to stave off similar disasters-today and in the future..
Leap of Faith asks profound questions about the limits of US power and the accountability for its use. Foreign Policy fiascos.
But more than the product of one bungling administration, the invasion of Iraq emerges here as a tragically typical example of modern U.
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He paints a devastating of portrait of an administration fueled by righteous conviction yet undercut by chaotic processes, rivalrous agencies, and competing egos.
Michael Mazarr has interviewed dozens of players involved in the deliberations about the invasion of Iraq and has reviewed all the documents so far declassified.
To this day, even the principal architects of the war cannot agree on it.
Yet how the decision came to be made remains shrouded in mystery and mythology. Foreign Policy have had longer-lasting or more harmful consequences.
Few errors in U.
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A single disastrous choice in the wake of 9/11-the decision to use force to remove Saddam Hussein from power-did enormous damage to the wealth, well-being, and reputation of the United States.
The dramatic insider account of why we invaded Iraq, the motivations that drove it, and the frustrations of those who tried and failed to stop it, leading to the most costly misadventure in US history
