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What to Do in Iraq: A Roundtable
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Can anything -- international mediation, regional collaboration, decentralization, or constitutional negotiations -- save Iraq from a full-fledged civil war and the Bush administration from a foreign policy fiasco?
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Essay, Mar/Apr 2006
Most discussions of U.S. policy in Iraq assume that it should be informed by the lessons of Vietnam. But the conflict in Iraq today is a communal civil war, not a Maoist "people's war," and so those lessons are not valid. "Iraqization," in particular, is likely to make matters worse, not better.
Essay, Nov/Dec 2006
Reports that U.S. troops may have killed 24 civilians in Haditha, Iraq, last November have renewed fears that the U.S. military routinely violates the laws of war. But is the Haditha incident the exception or the rule? In fact, U.S. compliance with noncombatant immunity in Iraq has been relatively high by historical standards, and it has been improving since the beginning of the war.
Review Essay, Jan/Feb 2006
In The Assassins' Gate, George Packer presents a searing account of the Bush administration's failures in Iraq -- and of his own disillusionment as a liberal hawk who supported toppling Saddam Hussein.
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Solution in Iraq
How many dollars we have earmarked for Iraq? Use it this way:
1) Hunker down in secured bases for emergency endeavors over there, protected by star wars defense, etc.
2) Multiple dam every flooding river in USA(North America) and byproduct hydroelectric power (du-uh).
3) Mass produce electic cars with Nascar style roll cage/seatbelts for safety and install generators(du-uh).
4) Let that "Religion of Peace" bathe in their oil till they come clean. Eventually they will run out of blood money we gave them for oil.
5) Epilogue: if our red-neck, hate-filled, covetous, cowboy nation could survive a civil war and get civilized i'm betting any nation could figure that one out.
6) Face it, we are their enabelers by being addicted to oil.
7) Running short on money? Nationalize the Federal Reserve and that national debt owed to that private bank (and shareholders) will be owed to ourselves instead like it should have been in the first place.