Note
Rashid Khalidi's powerful new book examines East and analyses the likely outcomes of the USA's most recent incursions in the region. America's path of conflict, occupation and colonial rule is an object reminder that those who refuse to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
Summary
Brutally unfair though such a comparison was in view of the widespread and murderous torture of the Ba'th regime, it was a fitting epitaph for a misbegotten, ill-conceived and illegal war, waged in full, willful ignorance of the ample lessons of the history of the modern Middle East.
