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Iraq: The Way Out

Crisis States Research Centre public lecture


Jonathan Steele will argue that the occupation has failed, not because of a lack of pre-war planning, but because of a lack of informed political analysis by US decision-makers and the British Foreign Office. They failed to see that Islamists, Sunni and Shia, would fill the post-Saddam vacuum and that most Iraqis would quickly come to resent yet another Western intervention in the Middle East.

Jonathan Steele is the Guardian's senior foreign correspondent and a veteran of eight assignments in Iraq since April 2003. Educated at Cambridge and Yale, he has covered conflicts in Central America, Southern Africa, Darfur, the former Soviet Union, Afghanistan and the Middle East. His book, DEFEAT: Why they lost Iraq, will be published on January 24.


Speaker(s):

Jonathan Steele | talks
Chair: Professor James Putzel | talks

 

Date and Time:

31 January 2008 at 6:30 pm

Duration:

1 hour 30 minutes

 

Venue:

Hong Kong Theatre
LSE Clement House
99 Aldwych
London
WC2B 4JF
020 7955 6043
http://www.lse.ac.uk/events
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London School of Economics & Political Science
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