With Friends Like These
Reagan, Bush, and Saddam, 1982-1990
by Bruce W. Jentleson
(instructor's desk copy)
Softcover in very good condition with minimal shelf wear. There is no writing or highlighting.
300 pages, 1994 edition, ISBN 0393036650, Norton Publishers
From the back cover
"The enemy of my enemy," as the age-old axiom goes, "is my friend." Such
was the reasoning behind U.S. strategy when the Reagan administration
first tilted towards Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war. The Bush administration embraced this same thinking up to the eve of Iraq's invasion of Kuwait - when the "enemy of my
enemy" proved to be no friend at all.
This thoughtful and
well-documented analysis of U.S.-Iraqi relations confronts the
question of how and why the Reagan-Bush strategy of bringing Saddam
into the "family of nations" failed so profoundly. Why didn't Iraq
moderate its behavior? Why didn't the United States increase its
influence? Might the whole Gulf War have been avoided? Irrespective of military success in the Gulf War, there are important foreign-policy lessons to be grasped as the United States charts its course
in the post-Cold War world.
Drawing on scores of declassified documents,
revealing interviews, and hearings held by the U.S. Congress, Professor Bruce Jentleson provides a richly detailed and
insightful account of the politics, processes and consequences of U.S.
policy towards Iraq in these crucial years. The miscalculations,
misunderstandings, and mismanagements Jentleson uncovers will provoke and fascinate all
serious observers of U.S. foreign policy.
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