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Title: Cruelty and Silence: War, Tyranny, Uprising, and the Arab World by Kanan Makiya ISBN: 0-393-31141-4 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 April, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Important Book
Comment: Makiya is not a Zionist or a Neo-Con, so it's hard for the Manichean anti-Americans to demonize his evidence and arguments against the totalitarian-drooling status quo in the Middle East. In the first half off the book, he relays heart-breaking anecdotes about sons unable to kiss their dying mothers after a chemical attack, children raped in front of their parents, prisoners forced to drink gasoline and shot so that they would explode, children surviving mass grave shooting, all in that "noble" Arab Gov't known as Saddam Hussein's Iraq.
The second half of the book is a scathing indictment of the Edward Saids and Noam Chomskys of the world who rationalize the inhumanity all too prevalent in the Mid-East, specifically in Iraq, "Saddam was a victim, The U.S. is worse, Saddam's strong!" and all that junk. Because Makiya isn't a GOP Zionist, these criticisms are particularly strong and persuasive. The book is a much needed call on the part of Arabs and Muslims to adopt a Liberty-based morality instead of a relativistic, ethnic allegience based morality. A good book for all to read.
Rating: 5
Summary: Now it's our turn to prove we believe our own words.
Comment: Now that the American government is controlling Saddam's infamous Abu Ghraib/Ghurayb prison, the site of many atrocities like those described in Cruelty and Silence, we owe it to ourselves to study the crimes against humanity that were perpetrated there. Arguments about whether the old death chamber should be destroyed or maintained for future generations go without much notice in the United States, as do the reports of ongoing investigations to insure we follow legal guidelines in handling the prisoners we now hold at Abu Ghraib. We owe it to ourselves to operate this facility in a manner which testifies to our philosophy and way of life. And when we question ourselves, the cause in Iraq, the price we pay, the chances of success, we should understand the nature of the vicious regime which created the disfunctional and factionalized Iraqi society we see today. Cruelty and Silence helps us develop a long-term perspective to the challenges ahead.
Rating: 5
Summary: A witness to horror and courage
Comment: This is one of the best books I have read all year. Ten years old, it is still agonisingly relevant. In its bearing witness to human cruelty, human indifference but also human courage, it is as unflinching, as passionate and as magnificent as the works of Primo Levi. Beautifully written, meticulously observed, focussed on people, not abstractions, it is a book that haunts me and will continue to do so for a long time to come. If you have any doubts at all about the rightness of invading Iraq, read this book. There will be no doubts left, only a terrible regret that the ousting of the Saddam regime was not done long, long ago.
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Title: Republic of Fear: The Politics of Modern Iraq, Updated Edition by Kanan Makiya ISBN: 0520214390 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1998 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Rock: A Tale of Seventh Century Jerusalem by Kanan Makiya ISBN: 0375700781 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 27 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: A History of Iraq by Charles Tripp ISBN: 052152900X Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 27 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror by Bernard Lewis ISBN: 0679642811 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 25 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Out of the Ashes : The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein by Andrew Cockburn, Patrick Cockburn ISBN: 0060929839 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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