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In our next episode, out Tuesday, we think about the 2003 Iraq invasion and ask what makes a war “good” or “bad.”
Reading List:
Obama's Speech on Iraq, March 2008 – Council on Foreign Relations
Obama's Tough Sell on Afghanistan, by Jessica Rettig – U.S. News & World Report
Nationalism as a Cause of World War I – Alpha History
Timeline: Greco-Persian Wars – Oxford Reference
H.J.Res. 114 (107th): Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002 – govtrack.us
Chuck Schumer explaining his vote on the Iraq war resolution – C-SPAN
Iraq - Gallup
Did America invade Iraq for oil? by Josh Velson - Quora
America, Oil, and War in the Middle East, by Toby Craig Jones – The Journal of American History
US jury convicts Blackwater guards in 2007 killing of Iraqi civilians, by Dan Roberts – The Guardian
The Mongol Empire in World History, by Timothy May – World History Connected
Intertribal Warfare, by Douglas B. Bamforth – Encyclopedia of the Great Plains
Evolutionary Perspectives on Violence, Homicide, and War, by James R. Liddle, Todd K. Shackelford, and Viviana A. Weekes-Shackelford – Oxford Handbooks Online
Byzantium: The Surprising Life Of A Medieval Empire, by Judith Herrin – Erenow.com
Christians and Jews Under Islam, by Najib Saliba – Al-Hewar Center, The Center for Arab Culture and Dialogue
A Christian world under Islam's rule, by Christopher Howse – The Telegraph
The White Nationalist Origins Of The Term 'Alt-Right' — And The Debate Around It, by Adrian Florido - NPR
The Chinese Experience in 19th Century America – The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Bush: No Link Between Iraq, Sept. 11 Attacks – FOX News
Carving a Legacy of Giving (to His Party, Too), by Amy Chozick – The New York Times
Bosnian Genocide – History.com
Dirty War – Encyclopedia Brittanica
Transcript: President Bush Addresses Nation on Iraq War – The Washington Post
What We Owe Iraq: War and the Ethics of Nation Building, by Noah Feldman – Princeton University Press
Music Notes (In order of appearance)
Evil Bear Boris – Fight Club
Komiku - Fight, Run, Breath Deeply
Unheard Music Concepts – The Cold Wars
Legally Blind - Robert's Rules of Order (Pig and Potato War)
“The Cold Wars” and “Robert’s Rules of Order” used under a Creative Commons Attribution International license. “Fight Club” used under an Attribution 3.0 Unported license. “Fight, Run, Breath Deeply” used under public domain.