Despite the torrent of coverage devoted to war with Iraq, woefully little attention has been paid to the history of the region, the policies that led to the conflict, and the daunting challenges that will confront America and the Middle East once the immediate crisis has ended. In this collection, Micah L. Sifry and Christopher Cerf, coeditors of the acclaimed Gulf War Reader, have assembled essays and documents that present an eminently readable, up-to-the-moment guide -- from every imaginable perspective -- to the continuing crisis in the Gulf and Middle East.
Here, in analysis and commentary from some of the world's leading writers and opinion makers -- and in the words of the key participants themselves -- is the engrossing saga of how oil economics, power politics, dreams of empire, nationalist yearnings, and religious fanaticism -- not to mention naked aggression, betrayal, and tragic miscalculation -- have conspired to bring us to the fateful collision of the West and the Arab world over Iraq. Contributors include:
Fouad Ajami
George W. Bush
Richard Butler
John le Carré
Noam Chomsky
Ann Coulter
Thomas Friedman
Al Gore
Seymour Hersh
Christopher Hitchens
Arianna Huffington
Saddam Hussein
Terry Jones
Robert Kagan
Charles Krauthammer
William Kristol
Nicholas Lemann
Kanan Makiya
Kevin Phillips
Kenneth Pollack
Colin Powell
Condoleezza Rice
Arundhati Roy
Edward Said
William Safire
Jonathan Schell
Susan Sontag
George Will
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Christopher Cerf is an Emmy and Grammy award-winning author, composer, and producer. A charter contributing editor of the National Lampoon, Cerf has written more than 300 songs for Sesame Street and co-edited the celebrated newspaper parody Not The New York Times.
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Introduction and Acknowledgments
PART ONE SINS OF THE FATHERS
ONE Roots of Conflict: 1915-1989
Imperial Legacy
Phillip Knightley
The Rise of Saddam Hussein
Judith Miller and Laurie Mylroie
What Washington Gave Saddam for Christmas
Murray Waas
The Men Who Helped the Man Who Gassed His Own People
Joost R. Hiltermann
TWO The First Gulf War
Realpolitik in the Gulf: A Game Gone Tilt
Christopher Hitchens
U.S. Senators Chat with Saddam
The Glaspie Transcript: Saddam Meets the U.S. Ambassador
The Experts Speak on the Coming Gulf War
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How Saddam Misread the United States
Kenneth Pollack
PART TWO AFTERMATHS OF THE GULF WAR
THREE Saddam Survives
"We Have Saddam Hussein Still Here"
Andrew Cockburn and Patrick Cockburn
Why We Didn't Go to Baghdad
George Bush and Brent Scowcroft
Why the Uprisings Failed
Faleh A. Jabar
How Saddam Held On to Power
Kanan Makiya
FOUR Casualties of War
What Bodies?
Patrick J. Sloyan
Remember Nayirah, Witness for Kuwait?
John R. MacArthur
"Thank God for the Patriot Missile!"
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Did Iraq Try to Assassinate ex-President Bush in 1993?
A Case Not Closed
Seymour M. Hersh
FIVE Sanctions and Inspections
A Backgrounder on Inspections and Sanctions
Sarah Graham-Brown and Chris Toensing
The Inspections and the U.N.: The Blackest of Comedies
Richard Butler
The Hijacking of UNSCOM
Susan Wright
Behind the Scenes with the Iraqi Nuclear Bomb
Khidhir Hamza with Jeff Stein
SIX New Storms Brewing
An Open Letter to President Clinton: "Remove Saddam from Power"
Project for the New American Century
Statement: Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders
World Islamic Front
Televised Address to the Nation: "The Costs of Action Must be Weighed Against the Price of Inaction"
President Bill Clinton
PART THREE WAR WITH IRAQ
SEVEN The Impact of September 11th
Reflections on September 11th
Susan Sontag
Voices of Moral Obtuseness
Charles Krauthammer
Against the War Metaphor
Hendrik Hertzberg
An Open Letter to President Bush: "Lead the World to Victory"
Project for the New American Century
A Year Later: What the Right and Left Haven't Learned
Marc Cooper
Better Safe Than Sorry
Mona Charen
The Enemy Within
Daniel Pipes
"First They Came for the Muslims..."
Anthony Lewis
Not the War We Needed
Barbara Ehrenreich
EIGHT The Bush Doctrine
What to Do About Iraq
Robert Kagan and William Kristol
State of the Union Speech: The Axis of Evil
President George W. Bush
The Next World Order
Nicholas Lemann
No Meeting in Prague
Robert Novak
Remarks at West Point: "New Threats Require New Thinking"
President George W. Bush
The New Bush Doctrine
Richard Falk
Inside the Secret War Council
Mark Thompson
NINE The Country Debates Going to War
War on What? The White House and the Debate About Whom to Fight Next
Nicholas Lemann
Don't Attack Saddam
Brent Scowcroft
Remarks to the Veterans of Foreign Wars: "The Risks of Inaction Are Far Greater Than the Risk of Action"
Vice President Dick Cheney
Drain the Swamp and There Will Be No More Mosquitoes
Noam Chomsky
Questions That Won't Be Asked About Iraq
Congressman Ron Paul
The War Party's Imperial Plans
Pat Buchanan
Speech to the UN General Assembly: "I Stand Before You Today a Multilaterialist"
U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan
Speech to the UN General Assembly: "A Grave and Gathering Danger..."
President George W. Bush
Peace Puzzle
Michael Berube
Stuck to the U.N. Tar Baby
George Will
Against a Doctrine of Pre-emptive War
Former Vice President Al Gore
Why We Hate Them
Ann Coulter
What's Missing in the Iraq Debate
Peggy Noonan
Wars Are Never Fought for Altruistic Reasons
Arundhati Roy
We Don't Need No Stinkin' Proof!
Arianna Huffington
The President's Rea…