On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 7:44 PM, Sabri Oncu <[email protected]> wrote:
> Perelman, Michael wrote:
>
>> Should the affiliation with Washington Institute for Near East Policy be
>> cause for suspicion?
>
> Of course! But, that is the whole point! Yet, his title is good:
> Turkey's Republic of Fear. That is what is going on.
FWIW, there's also a book about Saddam's Iraq by that title.
>Editorial Reviews
>Amazon.com Review
>Originally written under the pseudonym Samir al-Khalil and published before
>the Gulf War, Republic of Fear describes the rise of Saddam Hussein and the
>Arab Ba'th Socialist party. The author, an Iraqi expatriate now living in the
>United States, offers this updated edition under his real name, Kanan Makiya.
>A new introduction discusses events following the invasion of Kuwait ("the
>chamber of horrors that is Saddam Hussein's Iraq has grown into something that
>not even the most morbid imagination could have dreamed up"). The book is not
>merely a chronicle of recent Iraqi politics, but a discussion of why the
>country has evolved into "a Kafkaesque world ... one ruled and held together
>by fear." Essential reading for anybody who wants to understand modern Iraq. --
> John J. Miller
> From Library Journal
> The author, an Iraqi expatriate writing under an assumed name, has painted a
> bleak and forbidding landscape of Iraq--past, present, and future. He
> painstakingly lays out the labyrinthine history of the chronologies, players,
> and actions of the Ba'th party and Iraq from 1958 to 1980. However, despite
> its thoroughness, this book is not objective; in the prefatory note,
> al-Khalil states "my prejudices . . . give rise to a particular
> interpretation of Iraqi Ba'thism." While his bias may be somewhat borne out,
> the author unfortunately writes more from conviction than from impartial
> observation. Nonetheless, this is highly recommended for all major
> collections in large public and academic libraries.
>- David P. Snider, Casa Grande P.L., Ariz.
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