In A Responsible End? the highly regarded expert on Iraq Reidar Visser
tells the story of both the internal politics of Iraq and the United
States' role and involvement in it. Many Americans had hoped that the
2005 elections would usher in an era of democracy in Iraq. But the
aftermath of the elections was devastating for many Iraqis, as sectarian
violence engulfed Baghdad and other key areas of the country in
2006-2007.
Visser provides a clear analysis of the complex path Iraq's internal
politics took during those seminal years and charts how, very often,
Washington's policies ended up seriously weakening the very country that
President Geroge W. Bush claimed he had come to save.