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Imperial Life in the Emerald City
Inside Iraq’s Green ZoneBy Rajiv ChandrasekaranNarrated by Ray PorterLength10h 18m
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The Washington Post’s former Baghdad bureau chief, Rajiv Chandrasekaran, takes us into the Green Zone, headquarters for the American occupation in Iraq. In this bubble separated from wartime realities, the task of reconstructing a devastated nation competes with the distractions of a Little America—a half-dozen bars, a disco, a shopping mall—much of it run by Halliburton. While qualified Americans willing to serve in Iraq are screened for their views on Roe v. Wade, the country is put into the hands of inexperienced twentysomethings chosen for their Republican Party loyalty. Ignoring what Iraqis say they want or need, the team pursues irrelevant neoconservative solutions and pie-in-the-sky policies instead of rebuilding looted buildings and restoring electricity production. Their almost comic initiatives anger the locals and fuel the insurgency.
This is a quietly devastating portrait of imperial folly, and an essential book for anyone who wants to understand those early days when things went irrevocably wrong in Iraq.
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Rating★★★★ 4.1 (8.8K)
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GenreHistory, Politics and Government
Length10 hrs 18 mins
Narrated byRay Porter
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateJan 1, 2006
LanguageEnglish
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