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10-05-2004, 20:37
No matter what your political position may be, this reasonably impartial writing (condemns Saddam etc) is worth a look. The question is not where to point the finger of blame, but "what do we do now, and why?"
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The New York Review of Books
May 13, 2004
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/17103?email
How to Get Out of Iraq
By Peter W. Galbraith
In the year since the United States Marines pulled down Saddam
Hussein's statue in Baghdad's Firdos Square, things have gone very
badly for the United States in Iraq and for its ambition of creating a
model democracy that might transform the Middle East. As of today the
United States military appears committed to an open-ended stay in a
country where, with the exception of the Kurdish north, patience with
the foreign occupation is running out, and violent opposition is
spreading. Civil war and the breakup of Iraq are more likely outcomes
than a successful transition to a pluralistic Western-style democracy.
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The New York Review of Books
May 13, 2004
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/17103?email
How to Get Out of Iraq
By Peter W. Galbraith
In the year since the United States Marines pulled down Saddam
Hussein's statue in Baghdad's Firdos Square, things have gone very
badly for the United States in Iraq and for its ambition of creating a
model democracy that might transform the Middle East. As of today the
United States military appears committed to an open-ended stay in a
country where, with the exception of the Kurdish north, patience with
the foreign occupation is running out, and violent opposition is
spreading. Civil war and the breakup of Iraq are more likely outcomes
than a successful transition to a pluralistic Western-style democracy.