Endgame, Scott Ritter
Endgame, Scott Ritter
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Endgame
Solving the Iraq Crisis

Author: Scott Ritter

Narrator: Scott Ritter

Abridged: 3 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/01/1999


Synopsis

WHAT SHOULD WE DO ABOUT IRAQ?
Scott Ritter spent seven years in Iraq as an arms inspector for the United Nations. His 1998 resignation as the U.N.'s chief weapons inspector there made front-page headlines around the world. In Endgame, Ritter draws on his experiences to take us inside Saddam Hussein's Iraq and to explain where U.S. policy in Iraq went wrong.
Ritter describes in detail the ways that Saddam tried to foil inspectors by concealing his weapons programs. He brings readers with him inside some of Iraq's most carefully guarded sites and shows us dramatic face-offs between U.N. inspectors and hostile Iraqi guards and officials. But Ritter criticizes the U.S. for squandering an international consensus on Iraq and trying to use the inspections process for uniquely American goals. He argues strongly against the proposed American military strike against Iraq, suggesting instead a bold and innovative solution to the long-standing crisis.

About The Author

Scott Ritter was commissioned in the Marine Corps in 1984 and served for eight years as an intelligence officer, reaching the rank of major. He served as an arms control inspector in the former Soviet Union and on the staff of General Norman Schwarzkopf during the Gulf War before taking his position with UNSCOM. Ritter currently resides with his family in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Joseph on April 12, 2016

Interesting account of one of the top UN weapons inspectors in the 1990's. Gives some excellent insights into how the inspections worked and why they fell apart. Ritter comes across as an odd character: very exacting and intense, an ex-Marine who took his job as an inspector extremely seriously. May......more

Goodreads review by David on April 24, 2011

When the ink was still wet on this work, I just followed the reviews, critiques, and Sunday morning Television reviews. It has always been on my list of 'to read'. I should have not postponed reading of the behind the scenes politics, personalities, and on-the-ground workings and events. Ritter's cr......more