America's Middle East: How Washington brought ruin to the region

America's Middle East: How Washington brought ruin to the region America’s Middle East  by Marc Lynch is a  book  written against amnesia, and against the greasy consolations by which empires survive their crimes.  It is also, improbably, a magnificent act of civic faith. Lynch begins in rage, but he does not remain there.  The anger that animates these pages is not the ornamental fury of the columnist or the safely retrospective indignation of the memoirist.  It is the rage of someone who has lived inside the institutions through which  American  Middle East policy is made, and who has finally concluded that the machine did not merely malfunction. It worked as designed. Lynch is unusually well placed to make the case. A professor at George Washington University’s  Elliott School , he is one of the most important American interpreters of Arab politics of recent decades.  Read more:  America's Middle East: How Washington brought ruin to the region A Kuwaiti woman welcomes a US soldier with rose water on 27 February 1991 after allied forces rolled into Kuwait City (Christophe Simon/AFP)

Original source: Middle East Eye