Tyranny's Ally : America's Failure to Defeat Saddam Hussein

by Wurmser, David

• ISBN13: 9780844740737
• ISBN10: 084474073X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-01-01
• Publisher: Natl Book Network

Table of Contents

FOREWORD	xi	(6)
Richard Perle
PREFACE	xvii	(4)
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS	xxi
1 INTRODUCTION	1	(8)
Strategic Retreat and Failure	2	(4)
A Symbol of the Region's Political Malaise	6	(1)
From Desert Storm to Retreat	7	(2)
2 THE SPENT STORM--ILLUSIONS AND BETRAYAL SINCE THE GULF WAR	9	(33)
The Revolt of 1991	10	(4)
Building, Then Betraying the INC	14	(3)
Saddam's Long and Precarious Summer of 1995	17	(3)
The Embrace of the Wifaq	20	(5)
The Balkanization of Northern Iraq	25	(2)
Saddam's Reentry into Northern Iraq	27	(2)
Challenging UNSCOM and Sanctions	29	(1)
Tailspin: The Summer of 1998	30	(7)
Another Wifaq-Led Coup Attempt?	37	(1)
Regional Implications	38	(1)
The Current Policy of Silver-Bullet Coups	39	(3)
3 NATIONS AT WAR WITH THEMSELVES AND THEIR NEIGHBORS	42	(24)
Is Tyranny a Path to Stability or to Anarchy?	43	(3)
Pan-Arabic Nationalism	46	(4)
The Revolutionary Spirit in Europe	50	(1)
European Influence on Arab Revolutionaries	51	(4)
The Failure of Pan-Arabic Nationalism and Ba'thism	55	(2)
Tyranny and Internal Instability	57	(2)
Tyranny and External Aggression	59	(2)
Tyranny and Anti-Americanism	61	(1)
Cutting a Hard Line on Ba'thism	62	(4)
4 IRAN, SHI'ISM, AND THE ISLAMIC REVOLUTION	66	(14)
Iran and Fundamentalism	67	(3)
Secular versus Religious Totalitarians	70	(2)
Effecting a Dual Rollback of Iran and Iraq	72	(2)
The Rule of the Jurisprudent	74	(2)
Shi'ism's Western Affinity	76	(4)
5 PAST AS PROLOGUE--IRAQ AND THE HASHEMITES	80	(14)
Jordan's Hashemite Initiative in Iraq	80	(5)
Political Decentralization	85	(3)
Jordan and the INC	88	(3)
Attacking Saddam's Core	91	(1)
Jordan against the Vanguard of Revolution	92	(2)
6 COMMON CAUSE--JORDAN AND THE IRAQI NATIONAL CONGRESS	94	(22)
Jordan and the PLO	95	(4)
Syria	99	(8)
Lebanon's Regional Rollback of Shi'ite Fundamentalism	107	(3)
Egypt	110	(4)
The Syrian Rapprochement with Iraq	114	(2)
7 THE STRATEGIC CENTRALITY OF IRAQ	116	(11)
Geographically Propitious	117	(2)
The Significance of Northern Iraq	119	(4)
Picking Up the Pieces in Turkey, Jordan, and Iraq	123	(2)
Toward Defeat	125	(2)
8 DEFEATING DESPOTISM	127	(14)
Watershed Summer of 1995	129	(1)
Reversing U.S. Policy	130	(1)
The Middle East Foreign Policy Community	131	(4)
To Decentralize Power	135	(1)
Perspectives	136	(1)
The Age of Modernity	137	(4)
NOTES	141	(16)
INDEX	157	(10)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR	167
MAP OF IRAQ, SHOWING THE NORTHERN SAFE HAVEN	12