Author: Ali, Tariq
Title: Bush in Babylon : The Recolonisation of Iraq
Description: London, Verso, 2003. orig.boards. 22x15cm, x,214 pp. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: The jackal’s wedding -- An oligarchy of racketeers -- Colonels and communists -- Ba’athism, Saddam and Gumhurriya -- War and empire -- Empire and resistance ["This invasion and occupation of Iraq by the United States and Britain - with retrospective sanction of this recolonisation by the United Nations - marks a turning point in world history and a renewal of the two-hundred-year-old war waged by the North against the South. Whatever the final outcome, the assault and capture of Iraq by the American Empire and its bloodshot British adjutant - and the resistance it provoked - will shape the politics of the twenty-first century. In this passionate and provocative book, Tariq Ali argues against the view that sees imperialist occupation as the only viable solution to bring about the regime-change in corrupt and dictatorial states. The American Empire, like all its predecessors, acts primarily out of self-interest. Now, as before, it is the political, economic and strategic needs of the United States that determine its foreign policy. Bush in Babylon is above all a history of the Iraqi resistance against empires old and new. Imperial interventions in the past created a layer of collaborators who could only be removed via a revolution; but the tragedy of Iraq is also self- inflicted. The radical colonels, courageous communists and burnt-out Ba' athists failed to establish a stable and just democratic republic, thus enabling a return visit by imperialism...." - Publisher's description].

Keywords: Iraqi Political History, Iraq War, United States, , , , , ,