From the Publisher
The first book of its kind to chronicle the reasons behind Iraq's descent into guerilla war, warlord rule, criminality, and anarchy, No End In Sight is a shocking story of wholesale incompetence, recklessness, and venality.
Culled from over 200 hours of footage collected for the film, the book provides a candid and alarming retelling of the events following the fall of Baghdad in 2003 by high ranking officials, Iraqi civilians, American soldiers, and prominent analysts. Together, these voices reveal the principal errors of U.S. policy that largely created the insurgency and chaos that engulf Iraq today—and what we could and should do about them now.
No End In Sight marks the first time Americans will be allowed inside the White House, Pentagon, and Baghdad's Green Zone to understand for themselves the disintegration of Iraq— and how arrogance and ignorance turned a military victory into a seemingly endless and deepening nightmare of a war.
New York Times Book Review
Now he has taken the material he collected from more than 50 interviews, expanded and updated it with additional interviews, and added his own interpolated commentary and a charming introduction, and produced a book also titled "No End In Sight" that, in its way, is as powerful as his movie, and equally heartbreaking.
The New York Times -
Barry Gewen
Charles Ferguson's 2007 documentary, "No End in Sight," was…a powerful and heartbreaking film. Ferguson introduced us to well-intentioned, intelligent people who took the White House at its word and went to Iraq to build a decent postwar society. He showed how they had their legs cut out from under them every step of the way by arrogant ideologues in Washington. Now he has taken the material he collected from more than 50 interviews, expanded and updated it with additional interviews, added his own interpolated commentary and a charming introduction, and produced a book also titled No End in Sight that, in its way, is as powerful as his movie, and equally heartbreaking…Ferguson is an expert interviewer—smart, attentive, persistent. He does his homework before he sits down with a subject so that he can ask the right questions. Most important, he is no partisan (he was an ambivalent supporter of the war). Ferguson is genuinely interested in getting at the truth. He wants to know exactly what went wrong.
Nader Entessar
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Library Journal
When the Bush administration launched a full-scale war against Saddam Hussein's Iraq in 2003, it argued, among other things, that the removal of the Iraqi dictator would usher in a new democracy in that country. Iraq's democratization, in turn, would have a ripple effect throughout the Middle East. This prediction has not materialized, and Iraq today has degenerated into a country of dubious cohesion and monumental socioeconomic and political problems. Some commentators have blamed the Iraq War on the interventionist and militaristic thrust of Washington's foreign policy, while others have attributed Iraq's current problems to the failure of adequate planning and post-reconstruction endeavors. Ferguson, a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur, here expands a documentary film of the same title that he wrote and directed, producing a highly informative and fascinating work. Most of those interviewed had not completely opposed the invasion of Iraq but are now critical of the war's conduct. Drawing on the film's footage and numerous additional interviews with high-level officials, journalists, and many others involved in the formulation and conduct of the war, Ferguson portrays a devastating picture of arrogance and incompetence that has led to Iraq's chaotic condition today. Recommended for academic and public libraries.
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