526 ••• Bibliographie Essayin Jim Mann, The Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush's War Cabinet (New
York: Viking, 2004), and in two books by Bob Woodward: Bush at War (New York:
Simon & Schuster, 2002), and Plan of Attack (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004).
The book that probably most influenced Bush's policymakers was Kenneth M.
Pollack's The Threatening Storm: The Case for Invading Iraq (New York: Random
House, 2002), but they probably did not read his warnings about the need to line
up the United Nations Security Council, and recently Pollack has denounced
Bush's policies. Then read Rashid Khalidi's Resurrecting Empire: Western Foot¬
prints and America's Perilous Path in the Middle East (Boston: Beacon Press, 2004),
a well-written, cogently argued book describing American tactics in the Middle
East as a disastrous return to the policies of empire. Complementary to it is Zbig-
niew Brzezinski's The Choice: Global Domination or Global Leadership (New York:
Basic Books, 2004), which deals with the world as a whole, but with ample treat¬
ment of the Middle East. Two other works in a similar tone are Richard A. Clarke's
Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror (New York: Free Press, 2004),
and Anonymous (Michael Scheuer), Imperial Hubris: Why the West Is Losing the
War on Terror (Washington, DC: Brassey's, 2004). See also, http://news.bbc.co.uk/
l/hi/world/americas/4034833.stm. Favoring the war policy is Raphael Israeli, The
Iraq War: Hidden Agendas and Babylonian Intrigue (Brighton, UK, and Portland,
OR: Sussex Academic Press, 2004). Opposing it is Tareq Ismaeil and William W
Haddad, eds., Iraq: The Human Cost of History (London and Sterling, VA: Pluto
Press, 2004). The worst scandals of the Iraq War concern the American abuse of
prisoners and detainees. For an official view, see Steven Strasser, éd., The Abu
Ghraib Investigations: The Official Report of the Independent Panel and Pentagon
on the Shocking Prisoner Abuse in Iraq (New York: Public Affairs, 2004). Less offi¬
ciai and more systematic is Mark Danner's Torture and Truth: America, Abu
Ghraib, and the War on Terror (New York: New York Review Books, 2004). The
outstanding critique of the Iraq War is Seymour M. Hersh, Chain of Command:
The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib (New York: HarperCollins, 2004). A technical
analysis of the early fighting is Anthony Cordesman's The Iraq War: Strategy, Tac¬
tics, and Military Lessons (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003). A course at the University
of Michigan has assembled a useful Web site for the war: http://www.lib.umich
.edu/govdocs/iraqwar/html. Presidents Clinton and Bush exaggerated Iraq's
WMDs, according to information at http://www.motherjones.com/news/
update/2004/02/02_402.html, but see also the CIA Web site: http://www.cia.gov/
terrorism/. A graphic presentation of the war's costs, updated frequently is at
http://www.ips-dc.org/iraq/failedtransition/transition.pdf.
Books abound on the recent conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. For Is¬
rael's side, start with Itamar Rabinovich, Waging Peace: Israel and the Arabs,
1948-2003, updated and revised (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003),
which complements various books cited earlier in this essay. Then see Ephraim