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Embracing the Occupiers
Conversations with the Future Leaders of Afghanistan and Iraq
Jeremy S. Block
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Embracing the Occupiers

Conversations with the Future Leaders of Afghanistan and Iraq

Jeremy S. Block Jeremy S. Block

March 2009

Praeger

Series: Praeger Security International

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This volume examines how Fulbright scholars from Iraq and Afghanistan view the war on terror and the U.S. role in a postwar world.

This is the first book to examine how Fulbright scholars-individuals almost certain to be movers and shakers in their own countries, if they weren't already before coming to America-from Iraq and Afghanistan view the U.S. interventions in their countries, the war on terror, the status of Islam, and other pressing issues of our day. As the author explains, understanding the mindset of Afghans and Iraqis willing to live and study in the occupying power is crucial to the conduct of America's war on terror and America's role in the post-President Bush world. In this work Block looks in-depth at a large representative sample of the Iraqi and Afghani Fulbright scholars in the United States, providing information about their former lives in their home countries, their opposition to dictatorial (Taliban and Saddam's) rule, their accounts of how they wound up coming to America, their opinions about America (both positive and negative), their views of jihadism and of the proper place for Islam in the political processes of their respective countries, and their expectations about what might await them when they return to their own countries. As such, it will be an invaluable resource as the United States continues to rebuild Afghanistan and Iraq.
Introduction
Chapter 1: An American Setting
Chapter 2: Coming of Age in Afghanistan and Iraq
Chapter 3: Tale of Exile, Struggle, and Redemption
Chapter 4: You Say Occupation, I Say Liberation
Chapter 5: We Have Landed
Chapter 6: Islam, Culture, and the War on Terror
Chapter 7: After?
Epilogue




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