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How to Save Iraq from Civil War

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Wednesday, December 28, 2011 7:18 AM

CANTTAKESKY


https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/28/opinion/how-to-save-iraq-from-civil
-war.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&src=tp


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How to Save Iraq From Civil War
By AYAD ALLAWI, OSAMA AL-NUJAIFI and RAFE AL-ESSAWI
Published: December 27, 2011

Baghdad

IRAQ today stands on the brink of disaster. President Obama kept his campaign pledge to end the war here, but it has not ended the way anyone in Washington wanted. The prize, for which so many American soldiers believed they were fighting, was a functioning democratic and nonsectarian state. But Iraq is now moving in the opposite direction — toward a sectarian autocracy that carries with it the threat of devastating civil war....


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Wednesday, December 28, 2011 9:59 AM

FREMDFIRMA



At this point I really don't think we *can* prevent it, all that any further effort is gonna do is delay the inevitable.
I say we get the hell out and take our lumps, instead of continuing to meddle, that never goes well.

-F

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Wednesday, December 28, 2011 10:21 AM

CANTTAKESKY


We could withdraw our support of Maliki. Whatever that's worth.

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Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

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Wednesday, December 28, 2011 11:03 PM

FREMDFIRMA


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Originally posted by canttakesky:
We could withdraw our support of Maliki. Whatever that's worth.


Not very bloody much, often enough it's less helpful than the deluded pyschopaths in the State Dept have any idea of since reality never seems to have an effect on their tiny little minds.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StopHelpingMe

-F

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Wednesday, December 28, 2011 11:47 PM

DREAMTROVE


The state dept in the trenches:




That's what a ship is, you know - it's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails, that's what a ship needs.

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Thursday, December 29, 2011 3:17 AM

GEEZER

Keep the Shiny side up


Interesting article, if somewhat like asking John Boehner and Eric Cantor to editorialise on the Obama administration's running of the U.S.

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Thursday, December 29, 2011 5:00 PM

ANTHONYT

Freedom is Important because People are Important


Quote:

Originally posted by Fremdfirma:

At this point I really don't think we *can* prevent it, all that any further effort is gonna do is delay the inevitable.
I say we get the hell out and take our lumps, instead of continuing to meddle, that never goes well.

-F



Hello,

This is like a debate between the First and Second Foundationers.

--Anthony


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"In every war, the state enacts a tax of freedom upon the citizenry. The unspoken promise is that the tax shall be revoked at war's end. Endless war holds no such promise. Hence, Eternal War is Eternal Slavery." --Admiral Robert J. Henner


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