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Article: A reality check for Iraq.(WORLD WATCHER)
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- USA TODAY
- Article date:
- January 1, 2007
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IT TURNS OUT THAT the Iraq Study Group, although bipartisan, still was a political animal. Even though it concluded that the Bush war policy (is there a policy?) thus far has failed, the panel's 79 recommendations shotgunned the field of Middle East strategy and yet still pulled some punches. If the U.S. really wants to get out of Iraq without turning the entire Middle East into an inferno, some very basic realities must be addressed.
First, there is a civil war in Iraq. Let's stop arguing about it; no more talk show discussions on "is it or isn't it?" The ongoing dialogue about whether there is, or is not, a civil war is destructive to the analytical process of ...