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Imperial life in the emerald city, inside Iraq's green zone, Rajiv Chandrasekaran

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Imperial life in the emerald city, inside Iraq's green zone, Rajiv Chandrasekaran

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-306) and index

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maps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Imperial life in the emerald city

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

48951964427530

Responsibility statement

Rajiv Chandrasekaran

Sub title

inside Iraq's green zone

Summary

The Washington Post's former Baghdad bureau chief, Raviv Chandrasekaran, takes us with him into the Green Zone, headquarters for the American occupation of Iraq. In this bubble, cut off from wartime realities, where the task of reconstructing a devastated nation competed with the distractions of a Little America were a half-dozen bars stocked with cold beer, a disco where women showed up in hot pants, a shopping mall, and a parking lot filled with shiny new SUV's, much of it run by Halliburton. 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. Their almost comic initiatives anger the locals and fuel the insurgency. Most Iraqis were barred from entering the Emerald City for fear they would blow it up

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Inside Iraq's green zone

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