This Week's Suggested Book
from the Ashbrook Center
(Monday, May 31, 1999)
 | | Tyranny's Ally:
America's Failure to Defeat Saddam Hussein
by David Wurmser |
The AEI Press
166 pages, January 1999
Paperback, 14.95
ISBN: 0844740748
A percentage of the proceeds from your purchase of this book from Amazon.com will benefit the
Ashbrook Center.
The 1991 Persian Gulf War was the greatest direct military investment the United States has ever made in the Middle East. The
objective was to remove Saddam Hussein as a threat to the region. Seven years after the war, Saddam's regime remains in place, his
power is rising, and his diplomatic situation is steadily improving. And the coalition to contain Saddam is rickety and in danger of
scattering.
In Tyranny's Ally, David Wurmser argues that current policy, even if invigorated by more aggressive military efforts, will not bring the
United States victory over Saddam and his regime. All previous efforts have failed because they have targeted only the tyrant, not the
institution of tyranny in Iraq and the region. The Iraq crisis is only the latest chapter in a broad upheaval that has gripped the region for
eighty years. By tolerating centralized, statist tyranny, the United States has assisted its enemies-totalitarian despots-and encouraged the
violent politics and shattering of societies attending such predatory regimes.
Wurmser offers historical and contemporary analysis of the Iraqi morass and outlines credible and effective strategies for U.S. policy to
adopt.
Table of Contents
- Foreward
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The Spent Storm--Illusions and Betrayal Since the Gulf War
- 3. Nations at War with Themselves and Their Neighbors
- 4. Iran, Shi'ism, and the Islamic Revolution
- 5. Past as Prologue--Iraq and the Hashemites
- 6. Common Cause--Jordan and the Iraqi National Congress
- 7. The Strategic Centrality of Iraq
- 8. Defeating Despotism
- Notes
- Index
- About the Author
- Map of Iraq, Showing the Northern Safe Haven
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