America at War
by Dan Rather, The Reporters of CBS News
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Author: Dan Rather, The Reporters of CBS NewsEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2003-09-09
ISBN: 0743257863
Number of pages: 176
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Book Reviews of America at War
Book Review: The reporters recognized the growing problems, the decision makers did not
Summary: 5 Stars
This book, published shortly (2003) after the U. S. led invasion of Iraq toppled Saddam Hussein, is a vivid description of the war. Many commentators are now referring to the early phase of the war as a "cakewalk." Kenneth Adleman, one of the neoconservative architects of the policy that led to the invasion, used that term on a news show this past week. However, as this book makes quite clear, the invasion was a bloody business. Despite all the intelligence embedded in the munitions, there was a great deal of collateral damage and Iraqi deaths to go along with the American casualties.
At the end of the book, some of the reporters showed a great deal of prescience in their reporting. Dan Rather notes on pages 146 and 147 how thin the U. S. forces were spread and how little they could do to control the conditions in Iraq. However, the situation was best summed up in the afterword written by Mark Phillips. His comment, ". . . quell what military officials were calling `isolated' attacks by diehard Saddam loyalists, but which seemed to me and other observers like a nascent, organized resistance movement." He also described a middle-aged man who was spitting with rage and screaming into the camera."Go! We do not like Saddam. But we hate Americans. Leave this place!" He also said that he felt more occupied than liberated. Finally, there is the comment, "Moreover, what was missing was any coherent U. S. plan to rebuild the country."
The events of the last three years have clearly demonstrated that these reporters detected the gestating problems as soon as Saddam was toppled. It is unfortunate for the world that the decision makers were so caught up in their beliefs of personal infallibility that they failed to heed and respond to them. For if they had, a great deal of bloodshed and destruction could have been avoided.
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