Reflections on Iraq

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David Newsom is a former under secretary and assistant secretary of state who has served as U.S. ambassador to Libya, Indonesia, and the Philippines. He also served in Iraq from 1952 to 1955. After retiring from the Foreign Service, he became director of the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, professor and dean at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, and professor in the Department of Government and Foreign Affairs at U.Va. He is the author of The Imperial Mantle: The United States, Decolonization and the Third World, The Soviet Brigade in Cuba, Diplomacy and the American Democracy, and The Public Dimension of Foreign Policy.