
Babylon Revisited
Review of Civilizations of Ancient Iraq, by Benjamin R. Foster and Karen Polinger Foster (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009. pp. xii, 297)
… Western civilization owes much to ancient Iraq. It was here that the earliest form of writing was developed, which produced … harsh, often death. All of this changed after the Gulf War, when crippling UN sanctions hobbled Iraq and created a new …