From Sadat to SaddamFrom Sadat to Saddam offers a fresh perspective on the politicization of the U. S. diplomatic corps and the militarization of U. S. foreign policy in the Middle East. This book begins with the 1981 assassination of Egyptian president Anwar Sadat, continues through two Gulf wars, and ends with the U. S. withdrawal of combat troops from Iraq in 2011. This firsthand account of thirty years in the diplomatic trenches of U. S. foreign policy in the Middle