"United States" . . "Middle East." . . "Estados Unidos Relaciones Iraq." . . "Guerre en Irak, 2003- Aspect politique États-Unis." . . "Geschichte 1979-." . . "History." . . "Middle East" . . "Estados Unidos Relaciones Israel." . . "Israel Relaciones Iraq." . . "Guerra de Iraq, 2003 Causas y antecedentes." . . . . "Causes." . . "Iraq War, 2003-" . . "Israel Relaciones Estados Unidos." . . "Aussenpolitik." . . "Außenpolitik." . "Israel" . . "Israel." . "Israël" . "Likud." . . "USA." . . "Iraq Relaciones Israel." . . "Guerre d'Irak (2003-2011) Origines." . . "United States." . . "Foreign relations." . . "Likud (Political party : Israel)" . . "Irakkrieg." . . "Naher Osten." . . "Golfkrieg (1990-1991)" . . "Militär." . . "1989-" . . "Strategie." . . . "In this revelatory volume, Stephen Pelletière, the CIA's Iraq analyst in the 1980s, argues that not only did Rumsfeld's plan for a quick, decisive military victory in Iraq reflect the ideas of Israel's right-wing party, but that it exemplifies Lukid's profound, little-understood, and at times disatrous influence on the United States' Middle East policy for nearly three decades.''Israel in the Second Iraq War: The Influence of Likud describes U.S.-Israeli relations from the fall of the Shah--when President Reagan anointed the Israel as America's surrogate in the Middle East--through a string of Mid-East policy fiascos, including the 1982 invasion of Lebanon, the Iran-Contra arms-for-hostages scandal, and the ill-fated second Iraq War, which Likudniks in the Pentagon promoted and which produced the ongoing Iraqi resistance. The book also chronicles the growth of resistance movements including Hamas and Hezbollah, arguing that these are not part of a vast jihadi conspiracy, but are instead Arab attempts to stop land seizures by the Israelis and the Americans.'" . . . . . . . . . "Israel in the Second Iraq War The Influence of Likud" . . . . "Electronic books"@en . . . "This book examines the second Iraq War on two levels. One: it focuses on the principal antagonists who engaged directly with each other over the war-- the ideologues grouped around Donald Rumsfeld in the Pentagon, and the officers of the old, Ba'thist-led Iraqi army, who sparked the resistance and kept it going through the crucial interval of the first two years. Both groups, the study finds, were aroused by extraordinary passions. The ideologues had a hidden agenda that they were determined to fulfill; the officers were set on exacting revenge for what the Americans had done to them personally, and to their country. On quite another level, the book looks at the interests that signed on early to support the war with the intent of reaping rich rewards, when (as they fully expected) the contest turned in America's favor. The second Iraq War, the book argues, should be seen as a kind of joint stock company venture. The war could not have gone forward without the support (material and otherwise) of a group of powerful individuals and parties in the United States and abroad, and, ironically, it's the failure of these backers now, six years into the war, to agree on a strategy that has caused the war to become bogged down. The parties, having had a falling out, are, in a manner of speaking, deadlocked over what to do next. The book speculates as to what is likely to come out of this debacle. It concludes that no matter what anyone may say (President Obama included), the United States is in Iraq for the foreseeable future."@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Israel in the second Iraq war : the influence of Likud" . . . . . "Israel in the second Iraq War the influence of Likud"@en . "Israel in the second Iraq War the influence of Likud" . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Israel in the second Iraq War : the influence of Likud" . . . . . . "Electronic resource" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Israel." . . "PELLETIERE, STEPHEN C." . . "Guerre en Irak, 2003- Causes." . . "1945-1989." . . "Moyen-Orient" . . "Likud (Parti politique : Israël)" . . "Guerre en Irak, 2003- Aspect politique Israël." . . "Influence." . . "Political aspects." . . "États-Unis" . . "Since 1945" . . "Iraq Relaciones Estados Unidos." . .