The Palestinian People: A Historyby Baruch Kimmerling; Joel S. Migdal

✍ Scribed by Review by: L. Carl Brown

• Book ID: 124206970
• Publisher: Council on Foreign Relations
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 202 KB
• Volume: 82
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0015-7120
• DOI: 10.2307/20033734

✦ Synopsis

But the idea that the evolving history of the United States' interaction with Iraq since 2001 is a rerun of the United Kingdom's in 1917 is compelling. The target country, although much changed in the interven ing eight-plus decades, still demonstrates cultural, ethnic, and linguistic continuity. Each invader pledged liberation, not conquest. Each implemented a thorough regime change. Each confronted the problem of choosing between "inside" leadership and "outside" leadership (e.g., the non-Iraqi Faisal and the long-exiled Ahmed Chalabi) to construct a new Iraqi