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Cargando... Vida imperial en la ciudad esmeralda : dentro de la zona verde de Bagdad (2006)por Rajiv Chandrasekaran
  
No hay Conversaciones actualmente sobre este libro.  octal | Jan 1, 2021 |  Movie has very little to do with the book; and I found the movie to be very disappointing, very simple-minded. The book, on the other hand, is extremely powerful, extremely sad. The pathetic, criminal ignorance and ineptitude of the Bush Administration, Rumsfeld's DOD, and the neo-conservatives running the show makes this a very hard read. Chandrasekaran was the bureau chief for the Washington Post before the war and went back immediately after the invasion. He talks to everybody. (I've been following Chandrasekaran's career since he was writing Wash. Post Metro stories about Old Town Alexandria! as he worked with a friend of mine. He went on to become a foreign correspondent.) Great, great job of reporting. (  ) tmph | Sep 13, 2020 | Grim, fascinating and at times almost unbelievable story of Baghdad after the war. This is a story of incompetence, prejudice and power told in a fairly balanced way. (  ) CarolKub | Sep 4, 2020 | Imperial Life in the Emerald City describes what went wrong with the reconstruction of Iraq. It was a sad book to read because it pointed out all of the opportunities lost. Although it pointed out a lot of major missteps, I found that it was not politically skewed or motivated. The author did paint some of members of the Busch administration in a bad light, but at the same time it seemed clear that they really thought they were doing the right thing at the time. I enjoyed reading this book and felt that it helped me understand what is going on in Iraq. I just wish that we hadn't messed everything up so badly to begin with. (  ) Cora-R | Jul 31, 2019 | It would be a comedy of errors, if it weren't so tragic. (  ) Seafox | Jul 24, 2019 | sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Inspirado
La Zona Verde, Bagdad, 2003: En el interior de un lujoso complejo amurallado, Paul Bremer y su Autoridad Provisional de la Coalición, se proponen construir un nuevo y democrático Irak. La APC, un equipo formado por principalmente por idealistas escogidos por sus opiniones sobre temas como el aborto y la pena capital, pasó el primer y crucial año de la ocupación intentando alcanzar objetivos --como una nueva ley de tráfico y una ley protectora de diseño de microchips-- que poco o nada tenían que ver con las necesidades reales de un país en tiempos de posguerra. Rajiv Chandrasekaran, ex director de la oficina de The Washington Post en Bagdad, nos ofrece un íntimo retrato de la vida en el interior de esta burbuja del Mundo de Oz que se mantuvo impasible ante el caos que reinaba en el exterior. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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 Google Books — Cargando...GénerosMelvil Decimal System (DDC)956.7044 — History and Geography Asia Middle East IraqClasificación de la Biblioteca del CongresoValoraciónPromedio: (4.02)
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In general, when something goes wrong as badly as the Iraq war, I like to think of the counterfactual of "how many bullets in the right bodies would it have taken to solve this at the time, given what a reasonable person should have known at the time with privileged access". Iraq probably was bigger than the one-bullet naive solution (Chalabi), but might be a 3 body problem. Maybe a few more, but still not that many compared to what happened. (