A former CIA analyst looks at nearly three decades of U.S. Middle
East policy to examine the pervasive and too-often disastrous
influence of Israel's right wing Likud party. In this revelatory
volume, Stephen Pelletière, the CIA's Iraq analyst in the 1980s,
argues that not only did Rumsfeld's plan for a quick, decisive
military victory in Iraq reflect the ideas of Israel's right-wing
party, but that it exemplifies Lukid's profound, little-understood,
and at times disatrous influence on the United States' Middle East
policy for nearly three decades. Israel in the Second Iraq War: The
Influence of Likud describes U.S.-Israeli relations from the fall
of the Shah—when President Reagan anointed the Israel as
America's surrogate in the Middle East—through a string of
Mid-East policy fiascos, including the 1982 invasion of Lebanon,
the Iran-Contra arms-for-hostages scandal, and the ill-fated second
Iraq War, which Likudniks in the Pentagon promoted and which
produced the ongoing Iraqi resistance. The book also chronicles the
growth of resistance movements including Hamas and Hezbollah,
arguing that these are not part of a vast jihadi conspiracy, but
are instead Arab attempts to stop land seizures by the Israelis and
the Americans.
General
| Imprint: |
Praeger Publishers Inc
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
Praeger Security International |
| Release date: |
November 2009 |
| First published: |
November 2009 |
| Authors: |
Stephen C. Pelletière
|
| Dimensions: |
235 x 156 x 15mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Hardcover - Cloth over boards / With dust jacket
|
| Pages: |
148 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-313-38230-7 |
| Categories: |
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History >
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| LSN: |
0-313-38230-1 |
| Barcode: |
9780313382307 |
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