beyond the surge in iraq

And if an electoral crisis or some other event returns Iraq to civil war, it would be very hard to justify another troop surge to try to stabilize Iraq. ... Robert Dreyfuss, “Renewed civil war in Iraq,” Nation, October 1, 2008. . ..

revolutionary betrayed

The devastation of the First World War, the Russian civil war, the foreign economic blockade and military intervention, combined with inevitable mistakes by the revolutionaries, generated additional problems. ... In 1920–21, just emerging from the civil war, the..

media rally around ‘forever war’ in afghanistan

“A hasty American withdrawal, experts said, would erode the authority and legitimacy of the Afghan government” and “could consign Afghanistan to a protracted, bloody civil war,” veteran national security reporters Mark Landler, Helene Cooper and Eric Schmitt wrote. . ..

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