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    <body><![CDATA[I recommend this book for anybody interested in the Middle East.  It starts with the history of our romance with the Middle East -- how the sweeping sands and &quot;exotic&quot; people have captured certain people -- and leads to an explanation of how this romanticized view lead to the first Iraq Wa...]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Arabists&quot; are diplomats, intelligence agents, scholars, adventurers, missionaries and military attaches serving in the Middle East. They were an elite group in the 19th-century. Kaplan contrasts their views of the Arab world with today's opinions...especially as they relate to Iraq and Sa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19595093">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book traces the history of American &quot;Arabists&quot;, individuals who participated in developing foreign policy towards the Arab world.  As such, it is more of a memoir or history of individuals than it is a foreign policy history.  I thought it was really interesting to learn about the ind...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36167428">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book provides an insightful account of the lives and experiences of Foreign Service Officers in Araby.  The different personalities in these stories make the time spent reading the book well worth it.  On a secondary note, one can learn about U.S. involvement in Southwest Asia and North Africa ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14004172">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Ok so this is what I call a truly evil book, representing an ideology that's driven some of the country's best and brightest out of the Foreign Service.<br/><br/>The approach to FP and National Security personnel it espouses literally led to the Iraq War.<br/>]]></body>
    
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