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INVISIBLE WAR: The United States and the Iraq Sanctions, Joy Gordon, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2010, 359 pages, $39.95.
U.S. foreign policy failures, particularly in terms of Iraq and the 10-year UN Security Council regime, have been widely debated over recent years, but not as comprehensively and shockingly depicted as in Joy Gordon's The United States and the Iraq Sanctions. She describes in detail the moral and ethical dilemmas associated with U.S. foreign policy, international law, and governance. The author has no misgivings on attributing the high mortality rate in Iraq before the second Gulf War in 2003 to the U.S. bombing of critical infrastructure in 1991 and subsequent U.S. policy decisions throughout the 10-year period of the UN economic sanctions. Gordon's study also reveals that the origin of the ongoing insurgency in Iraq was a result of...