In the book Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq’s Green Zone, former Washington Post Baghdad bureau chief, Rajiv Chandrasekaran, investigates the Green Zone, a sectioned off lavished city in Iraq where the United State authorities lived and worked. The book is centered on the failure of the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) not achieving their goal of helping the postwar nation Iraq, due to not fixing crucial immediate needs. Chandrasekaran does a wonderful job of explaining how the CPA failed at its goal, exposed what “war on terror” really meant, and explained the nature of the American Empire. Chandrasekaran firmly believes the CPA did not achieve the goal of helping Iraq. The CPA was originally put into place by the Bush…
Indira Nehru, also known as Indira Gandhi, was one of the most controversial prime ministers of India who led from 1966 to 1980. Gandhi came to power after the death of her father and India’s leader of the Indian National Congress at the time, Jawaharlal Nehru. She started Indian feminism and increased the potential power of women in the world, but she committed many crimes that prove that she was a bad leader for India. She did everything she could to keep herself in power even though she was…
happen to anyone who have been through a traumatic experience in their life. It strikes the nerve of the brain and anything can trigger it.”The veterans are often frustrated with the services provided to them by the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Pentagon and other government agencies. Almost 60 percent say the VA is doing an “only fair” or “poor” job in addressing the problems faced by veterans, and half say the military is lagging in its efforts to help them transition to civilian life,…
The Effects of War on Veterans in Afghanistan and Iraq More than half of the 2.6 million Americans dispatched to fight the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq struggle with physical or mental health problems and often begin to feel disconnected from civilian life, deriving from deployment. As stated in the article “After the Wars: A legacy of pain and pride”, written by Rajiv Chandrasekaran and published by The Washington Post. The conditions of being deployed and serving for our country can conclude…
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