Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Baghdad's Green Zone

by Rajiv Chandrasekaran | Nonfiction |
ISBN: 9780747592891 Global Overview for this book
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Journal Entry 1 by MrMustard from -- Somewhere in London 🤷‍♀️ , Greater London United Kingdom on Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Saw the author of this interviewed on 'The Daily Show' ages ago. Have finally got my hands on a copy. Hope it lives up to my expectations.

A staggering insider's account of the incompetence, arrogance, corruption and downright stupidity that ran through every aspect of America's attempt to run Iraq like a colony. Locked away from the realities of life in Baghdad in the bubble of the Green Zone, American administrators, usually employed purely for their loyalty to the Bush administration rather than for any particular skills or experience, attempted to impose their idea of a capitalist, secular democracy onto a reluctant local population. Billions of dollars disappeared into ultimately doomed attempts to change Iraq. Good people with good ideas and good intentions were frustrated, sometimes by infuriating bureaucracy and lack of funds, and other times by the fact that their ideas simply didn't fit with the neo-conservative ideology which prevailed in the Green Zone.

This book really captures the spirit of the administrators in the Green Zone, from wide-eyed, optimistic idealists, to cynical careerists, often blaming the Iraqi people for their failures.

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