Iraq: Backwards Into the Future

People who thought that the primary goal of the post-invasion occupation of Iraq was to win over a wary population will be shocked, just shocked, to learn that a ranking U.S. general is now saying that heightened troop levels should be maintained into next year because key to the new counterinsurgency strategy is winning over a wary population.

This course of events -– an utterly botched occupation for which there was virtually no planning (remember, the White House was certain that U.S. troops were going to be greeted as liberators and would be withdrawing in mere months) followed by three years of confusion followed by a return to the key original objective -– would be funny if it wasn’t so sad.

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