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A Boring Bourne? Immaterial Life in the Emerald City

I’d direct you all to read my fellow FPA blogger and global film critic, Sean Patrick Murphy, as he takes on the Iraqi war flick The Green Zone, based on Ray Chandresekaran’s excellent Imperial Life in the Emerald City.

http://globalfilm.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2010/07/27/green-zone-2010/

Have a look before you catch it on the small-screen. Sounds like you might be better off sticking with the book.

 

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Reid Smith

Reid Smith has worked as a research associate specializing on U.S. policy in the Middle East and as a political speechwriter. He is currently a doctoral student and graduate associate with the University of Delaware's Department of Political Science and International Relations. He blogs and writes for The American Spectator.