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Title: AFTER TIDE OF MEMOIRS FROM AMERICANS, AN IRAQI JOURNALIST OFFERS INSIDE ACCOUNT OF WAR’S DESTRUCTION
Source: The Intercept
URL Source: https://theintercept.com/2023/03/26 ... e=The%20Intercept%20Newsletter
Published: Mar 27, 2023
Author: Murtaza Hussain
Post Date: 2023-03-27 21:36:36 by Charles_Byrd
Keywords: None
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AMERICAN JOURNALISTS AND soldiers have published countless memoirs about their experiences in the Iraq War. But a new book by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad provides a radically different perspective: that of an ordinary Iraqi who witnessed firsthand the decimation of his country.

“The occupation was bound to collapse and fail,” Abdul-Ahad writes of the U.S. invasion in his remarkable memoir, “A Stranger in My Own City: Travels in the Middle East’s Long War.” As Abdul-Ahad goes on to explain, “A nation can’t be bombed, humiliated and sanctioned, then bombed again, and then told to become a democracy.”

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