{"id":1397,"date":"2007-04-08T22:23:42","date_gmt":"2007-04-08T22:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2007-04-08T22:24:29","modified_gmt":"2007-04-08T22:24:29","slug":"im_looking_forw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1397","title":{"rendered":"I’m Looking Forward To Reading This…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ali Allawi’s book ‘The Occupation of Iraq<\/a>‘.<\/p>\n

In a rueful reflection on what might have been, an Iraqi government insider details in 500 pages the U.S. occupation’s “shocking” mismanagement of his country – a performance so bad, he writes, that by 2007 Iraqis had “turned their backs on their would-be liberators.”<\/p>\n

\n“The corroded and corrupt state of Saddam was replaced by the corroded, inefficient, incompetent and corrupt state of the new order,” Ali A. Allawi concludes in “The Occupation of Iraq,” newly published by Yale University Press.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’ve got a high tolerance for incompetence and mismanagement – since much of human history seems to be based on it – and so I don’t throw my hands up in despair when people talk about how incompetent the occupation has been.<\/p>\n

But if we’re going to get better at it, we’d better list and learn from our mistakes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A new book by Ali Allawi looks interesting…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}