How Iraq was lost
Steve Coll’s account of America’s relationship with Saddam Hussein reveals a series of devastating blunders.
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Robert D Kaplan
Robert D Kaplan is an author and foreign correspondent. His latest book is The Tragic Mind: Fear, Fate and the Burden of Power (Yale University Press)
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