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Encyclopedia > A World Transformed

A World Transformed is a book by George H. W. Bush in which he explains why he didn't have the US conquer Iraq at the end of the earlier Gulf war:

"Extending the ground war into an occupation of Iraq . . . would have incurred incalculable human and political costs. . . . We would have been forced to occupy Baghdad . . . [and] rule Iraq. . . . Under those circumstances there would have been no viable exit strategy . . . the U.S. could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land." [1] (http://www.commondreams.org/scriptfiles/views03/1127_06.htm)



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A world transformed, by Ignacio Ramonet (926 words)
The "big bang" of the world’s stock exchanges, and the deregulation brought in during the 1980s by Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan, created the conditions for the economic globalisation which has been the principal dynamic of the final years of the twentieth century, and which no country can any longer escape.
The world’s societies have lost their bearings and are desperately searching for meanings and models, because these three major areas of change are all occurring at the same time, with the result that the shock effect is intensified.
This transformation of the world has taken place without the ordinary man in the street realising it, and even without the politicians really understanding it.
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