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The Iraq insurgency for beginners
At times it is good to go through the basics all over again. Read on…
2 Responses to “The Iraq insurgency for beginners”
When I read about the various fihting groups so starkly enumetated and described, I feel I’m trapped in a nightmare from which I can’t wake up. This man’s message is that we can’t leave.
But staying would tear our country apart.
It’s beginning to look like all we can do is choose the poison that will do us in.
[...] It isn’t very often that I agree with someone’s observations so much as I do Evan Kohlmann’s about the Iraqi insurgency and what we should be doing in this interview in Salon (hat tip: The Moderate Voice). Right from the naiveté in expecting to be able to establish a Western-style democracy in Iraq to the need to maintain our military presence in Iraq despite casualties, that it bolsters Al-Qaeda recruitment, that the U. S. military presence (i.e. “the Occupation”) is one of the reasons that there’s the level of killing in Iraq that there is, and that we’d rather be spending the money on something else. Here’s what Mr. Kohlmann says: Do you think the U.S. should withdraw from Iraq? [...]