Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq
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Author: Thomas E. Ricks
List Price: $27.95
Pages: 496
Publisher: Penguin Press
HC
ISBN: 159420103X
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Quotes from the author of Fiasco, Thomas Ricks:
"Reporting the book was a pretty emotional experience. Even having
covered this war as it unfolded, I was taken aback by the rage that some
officers felt toward the Bush Administration, and especially toward
Defense Secretary Rumsfeld. And also toward Paul Wolfowitz, who was then
the no. 2 guy at the Pentagon. I think the rage is probably like what the
military felt about Robert McNamara during the Vietnam War. What is
unprecedented, I think, is that many officers had doubts about the wisdom
of invading Iraq, especially in the way we did it."
"Even more significantly, I think the Bush Administration doesn't
really like "stability" in the Middle East. In its view, "stability" has
been the goal of previous administrations, but pursuing it led to 9/11. It
is not the goal, it is the target. So they are for rolling the dice, both
in Iraq and in Lebanon. I think the big worry is those wars spilling over
borders. Fasten your seat
belts."
作者在本書中毫無保留地批評美國軍方，并描述了伊拉克囚犯被虐的慘況，更形容布什政府的伊拉克政策是“美國史上最差勁的戰(zhàn)爭計(jì)劃”。
About
Author
Thomas E. Ricks, The Washington Post's
Pentagon correspondent, covered the war from Washington, drawing on Post
reporters' dispatches from the front lines. He has also visited Iraq twice
in the postwar period.
Thomas E. Ricks，《華盛頓郵報(bào)》資深記者，曾兩次身赴戰(zhàn)后伊拉克進(jìn)行采訪。 |
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