The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq

“The Achilles Trap is a rigorous, expertly controlled account of what Steve Coll calls the ‘march to disaster’—the US’s decades-long dealings with Saddam Hussein, characterized by fateful miscalculations and misunderstandings on both sides—a ‘cascade of errors’, as Coll puts it—and culminating in the catastrophically misjudged American-led invasion of Iraq in 2003″ Read more...

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