Summary: Can we judge the actions of Iraq’s government? From our safe and secure society, Americans often give advice that seems suicidal for those in Iraq’s violent and turbulent society. From today on the essential “abu muqawama“, a post by Dr. iRack discussing the “The rise and fall of a Sons of Iraq warrior“, Los Angeles …
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Part IV of a series about America’s new Long War Summary:Â How will the Iraq War end? Is there a solution? These are the questions readers most frequently ask me. Here is my answer. This is the 34th article I have published at DNI over the past four years, the 22nd about Iraq. I wish …
Summary: Part 5 in a series about the Iraq War. Links to the other chapters apprear at the end. “The commonest error in politics is sticking to the carcass of dead policies.” — Lord Salisbury, discussing Great Britain’s policy on the Eastern Question (1877) In the Fall of 2003 this author published on DNI a …
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Summary: This is part 2 in a series looking at the Iraq War. Advice from past to the present. Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. — Advice from Ambassador John Kenneth Galbraith in a letter to President Kennedy, dated 2 March 1962, printed in Galbraith’s Ambassador’s …
