Repeating History
March, 2004
Eighty years ago the Brits Occupied Iraq. We're making the same MistakesBetween 1914 and 1932 the British crown tried to build a liberal state in Iraq. It failed miserably. Now the U.S. is on a similar course. Toby Dodge, a senior research fellow at Warwick University and the author of Inventing Iraq: The Failure of Nation-Building and a History Denied, compares the two occupations.British Occupation of Iraq, 1920American occupation of Iraq, 2003Reason for InvadingTo seize the strategically impo...
