East : the improbable country and the graveyard of empires -- West : the United States, Saddam, and Al Qaeda, 1970s-2000 -- Bush, Bin Laden, and the pinnacle of world sympathy -- Rush to war -- Operation Iraqi Freedom -- Bush's war -- Obama
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Provides historical surveys of Iraq and Afghanistan, reviews U.S. policies regarding those nations from 1970 to 2000, discusses events that led President George W. Bush to invade Iraq and Afghanistan, and describes the course of those wars