America S Misadventures In The Middle East
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America's Misadventures in the Middle East
One of America's most distinguished diplomatists presents two dozen of his essays on the Middle East, all of them trenchant and many previously unpublished. The essays span the period from 1990 through 2010.
America's Misadventures in the Middle East
Ambassador Chas W. Freeman Jr. is one of America's most brilliant, experienced--and witty--diplomats. America's Misadventures starts with his previously unpublished reflection on Pres. George H. W. Bush's handling of the Iraq-Kuwait crisis of 1990-91. (He was U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia at the time.) In the thoughtful essays that follow, Freeman reflects on the origins of Washington's many intelligence failures in the Middle East, "the American way of war", and Washington's failure in recent decades to plan for a stable political end-state for the wars it has so cavalierly launched. As Prof. William B. Quandt notes in his Foreword: there is much to learn about "old-style" diplomacy here, and much to regret that Freeman's views seem so "radical" from the perspective of today's highly politicized discourse about this crucial region.