The Mess They Made: The Middle East After IraqAs Iraq descends ever closer to civil war, no one doubts that George W. Bush's Iraq strategy has been an abysmal failure—just as Gwynne Dyer argued it would be in both Ignorant Armies and Future: Tense. The question now is what will happen not just in Iraq but in the whole Middle East region once American troops are withdrawn. In The Mess They Made, Dyer predicts that the Middle East will go through the biggest shake up since the region was conquered and folded into the Ottoman Empire five centuries ago. In his trademark vivid prose, and in arguments as clear as his research is thorough, Dyer brings his considerable knowledge and understanding of the region to bear on the issue of how widespread the meltdown in the Middle East will likely be. In five chapters, Dyer points the way from present policies and events to likely future developments in Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and in the various other countries of the region, not least of which is nuclear-armed Israel. |
Contents
Introduction 1 | 1 |
The Heart of the Mess | 15 |
Why Iraq? | 35 |
The Threat to the Old Order | 67 |
The Future of Iraq | 85 |
The Terrorist Bandwagon | 113 |
Irans Putative Bomb | 141 |
Not the Shia Crescent the Islamist Revolutionaries | 171 |
Israels Dilemma | 209 |
Crawling from the Wreckage | 251 |
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