With Friends Like These by Bruce W Jentleson
"The enemy of my enemy", as the age-old axiom goes, "is my friend". Such was the reasoning behind US strategy when the Reagan administration first tilted towards Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war, and was continued by the Bush administration up to the very eve of Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait in 1990, when the enemy of my enemy proved that he too could be my enemy. This analysis of US-Iraqi relations confronts such questions as: how and why the Reagan-Bush strategy of bringing Saddam into the "family of nations" failed so profoundly; why didn't Iraq moderate its behaviour?; and why didn't America increase its influence? Despite the military success of the Gulf War there are important lessons to be learned about why the war occurred. Drawing on scores of declassified documents, revealing interviews and hearings held by the US Congress, this text provides a detailed and incisive account of US policy towards Iraq in those crucial years before the Gulf War.
Bruce W. Jentleson is professor of public policy and political science at Duke University, where he served from 2000 to 2005 as director of the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy. He has served as a senior advisor to the U.S. State Department Policy Planning Director; as a foreign policy aide in the U.S. Senate; and as foreign policy advisor to Al Gore during his 2000 presidential campaign. In addition to numerous articles, he is the co-author of The End of Arrogance: America in the Global Competition of Ideas, with Steven Weber.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780393036657 |
| ISBN 10 | 0393036650 |
| Title | With Friends Like These |
| Author | Bruce W Jentleson |
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| Publisher | WW Norton & Co |
| Year published | 1994-10-17 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
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