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Patrick Cockburn

Subtitulado: ISIS and the New Sunni Uprising

How could things have gone so badly wrong? Writing in these pages with customary calmness and clarity, and drawing on unrivaled experience as a reporter in the region, Cockburn analyzes the unfolding of one of the West's greatest foreign policy debacles and the rise of the new jihadis.
The fall of Mosul, Iraq's northern capital, to ISIS on June 10th, 2014 came as a shock to most people in the West. Iraq had been out of the news for some time. Suddenly and inexplicably, as it seemed to most of us in the West, the Iraqi army "with 350,000 soldiers on which 41.6 billion dollars had been spent since 2011" was defeated by a tiny unknown group of "as few as 1,300 fighters.....one of the great military debacles in history", as Patrick Cockburn writes. ISIS - "an al-Qaida-type of the greatest ferocity and religious bigotry", as Cockburn says, went on "to claim the creation of a Sunni caliphate spanning much of Iraq and Syria."

Idioma Inglés
Publicación 2014
Editorial OR Books
Categoría Sociales


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