01922nam a22002657a 4500 20240401115325.0 220329b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 0571230431 AL English 23 956.70443 PACA George Packer 157502 Assassins Gate: America in Iraq London Faber and Faber 2006 467 p. PB 23.5x15.5 cm. Astonishing in its scale and ambition, this is the most balanced and accomplished book about the Iraq war so far. "The Assassins' Gate" recounts how the United States set about changing the history of the Middle East and became ensnared in a guerrilla war in Iraq. It tells the story of the people and ideas that created the Bush administration's war policy and led America to the Assassin's Gate - the main point of entry into the American zone in Baghdad. The consequences of that policy are shown in the author's vivid reporting on the ground in Iraq, where he made several tours on assignment for "The New Yorker". We see up close the struggles of individual American soldiers and civilians and Iraqis from all backgrounds, including returning exiles, thrown together by a war that followed none of the preconceived scripts. "The Assassins' Gate" also describes the effect of the Iraq war on American life, including the ordeal of a fallen soldier's family and the shortcomings of a political culture too impoverished in its knowledge of the world and too bitterly polarized to debate complex moral and strategic questions. Iraq War, 2003 26421 Insurgency -- Iraq 26422 Civil war-Iraq 26423 Iraq -- Politics and government -- 2003 26424 Americans -Iraq 26425 United States -- Politics and government -- 2001 26426 PACKER (George) 26427 ddc GF 222076 222076 0 0 ddc 0 0 HIS AL AL 2013-03-24 0 956.70443 PACA GF03390 2022-03-29 00:00:00 2022-03-29 GF