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Nights in the Pink Motel - An American Strategist's Pursuit of Peace in Iraq (Hardcover)
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Nights in the Pink Motel - An American Strategist's Pursuit of Peace in Iraq (Hardcover)
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Nights in the Pink Motel is the first historical account of the
strategic process that sought to reverse the negative consequences
of the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq. It offers details and insights
into the Iraqi insurgency and Coalition counterinsurgency available
nowhere else. This book is a sustained, comprehensive account of
all the conflicting factors that have made Iraq such an intractable
international crisis and offers an intriguing narrative of how the
American-led Coalition returned sovereignty to Iraq in June 2004,
while defending Iraq's fledgling interim government against a
rising insurgency and terrorism and helping ensure the success of
Iraq's first national election in January 2005.The author, Robert
Earle--recruited by the first U.S. ambassador to Iraq, John
Negroponte, to serve as Negroponte's strategist--documents the
Coalition's uncertainty about the nature of the insurgent/terrorist
enemies, whose aim is to defeat democratization in Iraq. Earle's
story explores the impediments frustrating the massive, $18 billion
U.S. reconstruction effort and recounts the formulation of a
comprehensive counterinsurgency strategy issued by Negroponte and
Multinational Force-Iraq Commanding General George Casey.The title
of the book is derived from the name given to the author's dingy
offices a former palace of Saddam Hussein in the Green Zone of
Badgad where he wrestled with developing a startegy for peace. Upon
drafting the strategy, Earle learns he must be evacuated from Iraq
because of massive deep vein thrombosis in his left thigh.This
narrative twist takes him from the company of senior diplomats,
generals, and Iraqi politicians and places him in the medical
pipeline of wounded soldiers.Upon arriving home, Earle thinks his
nightmare assignment in Iraq is over, but Negroponte requests that
he return to Baghdad to write a long message to the President,
explaining that U.S. policy is failing and offering an alternative
approach. Casey, meanwhile, also wants Earle to assess the
evolution of Iraqi politics and possible outcomes of the risky
January 2005 election.Returning to Iraq over the strenuous
objections of State Department doctors, Earle occupies the dingy
environs he calls the "Pink Motel" and completes his assignments,
digging deeper into the realities of the international effort to
end the violence and build the peace. Nights in the Pink Motel is a
graphic, first-person account of the political, military, and human
efforts to dispel the fog of 21st century warfare.The book is an
essential contribution to understanding how all elements of
national power must be combined to defeat insurgency and terror.
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