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For almost two decades, Michael Goldfarb was public radio's voice in London, first, as NPR's London Bureau Chief, then as Senior Correspondent of Inside Out, the award-winning public radio documentary program. He has won the DuPont-Columbia Award, the Overseas Press Club Award, and British radio's näytä lisää highest honor, the Sony Award. He lives in London. näytä vähemmän

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Very interesting book!
One never reads enough about "jewish identity".
Read it!
 
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sweetwood1 | May 19, 2012 |
Goldfarb has penned a moving tribute to his friend, but his naiveté concerning the Bush Administration and their motives for the war (not to mention their astounding incompetence in prosecuting it) is shocking, coming from one calling himself a reporter.

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Pg. 41: [Ahmad speaking]: "The Americans don't really think [Chalabi] can be the leader of Iraq. It will be disaster if they put him in charge.
[Goldfarb speaking]: "I know, don't worry. They're too smart for that. Bush knows that if Iraq doesn't work it will cost him the White House. Failure is not an option."

Pg. 51: In the morning CNN and FOX were full of green-tinged night-camera footage of the 173rd Airborne parachuting into the north to "secure" the airfield at Harir, the sheer audacity of the act extolled by breathless embeds with the 173rd. In reality, Harir was two mountain ridges north of Erbil and about fifty miles away from the nearest Iraqi with an inclination to fire in anger. The security of the airfield at Harir where they landed was not in any doubt. In the months before the conflict started, private military contractors had overseen the runway's lengthening and reenforcement in anticipation of its use someday in a war to overthrow Saddam. The C-130 could have simply landed there. But the footage looked wonderful, it has to be said.

Pg. 318: The frustration in the street was echoed inside the walls of the Green Zone. Diplomats from other countries in the "coalition of the willing" felt that the Coalition Provisional Authority had beed turned into an extension of the Bush-Cheney '04 reelection campaign. Other nations' professional foreign-service officers found it shocking that senior CPA figures attended meetings with their Bush-Cheney lapel pins on. Didn't these people understand, they wondered, that they were supposed to be above partisan politics? Didn't they know they were representing all Americans, not just the president's supporters? Men with decades of experience in the Arab world who spoke Arabic fluently – something no senior American could do – found their advice ignored. Every decision taken by the CPA seemed to be framed not by what Iraqis needed but by what would impress American voters.

Pg. 323: Who knows if Saddam would have survived for even three years of the Iran-Iraq War if every great or formerly great power hadn't kept him propped up as a bulwark against the Iranian theocracy? Perhaps the Ba'ath might have imploded. But certainly the international community should have forced him out when it had the chance in 1991. [!!!!]
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efroh | Sep 29, 2006 |

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