Organizations and Markets

Mongols in Iraq

1 January 2007 at 4:35 pm Peter G. Klein Leave a comment

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I mentioned below that I was reading Jack Weatherford’s Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World. Here is Weatherford, writing in the 29 December LA Times, on how Genghis would have handled the invasion and occupation of Iraq:

IN HIS FINAL televised speech to the Iraqi people in 2003, Saddam Hussein denounced the invading Americans as “the Mongols of this age,” a reference to the last time infidels had conquered his country, in 1258. But the comparison isn’t very apt — unlike the Mongols, the Americans don’t have the organizational genius of Genghis Khan.

Read the rest for a flavor of what’s in the book.

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