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Article: The New Middle East; As the Iraq war helps bring the American era to a close, a new order will begin to emerge in the region.
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- Newsweek International
- Article date:
- January 8, 2007
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Byline: Richard N. Haass (Haass is president of the Council on Foreign Relations.)
It is early 2008.
The new U.S. strategy for Iraq, outlined by President George W. Bush in January 2007, in the wake of the Iraq Study Group report, has come and gone with no discernible effect.
With 100,000 soldiers still on the ground, despite congressional calls for major withdrawals, "force protection" is the new catchphrase, given domestic intolerance of American casualties. No one debates any longer whether Iraq is experiencing a civil war; it's in fact part failed state, part civil war and part regional war. Insurgents, militias and terrorists are more ...