http://www.frozentoothpaste.com/2008/03/19/how-i-forgot-iraq/ A Blog of Ideas Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:42:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.frozentoothpaste.com/2008/03/19/how-i-forgot-iraq/comment-page-1/#comment-3282 Link Banana » The Battle in Basra Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:24:58 +0000 http://www.frozentoothpaste.com/2008/03/19/the-problem-of-iraq/#comment-3282 [...] Proving myself right, I’ve again been ignoring Iraq news. Slate’s Fred Kaplan has some valuable details about the mess that’s engulfed Basra. The fighting in Basra, which has spread to parts of Baghdad, is not a clash between good and evil or between a legitimate government and an outlaw insurgency. Rather, as Anthony Cordesman, military analyst for the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies, writes, it is “a power struggle” between rival “Shiite party mafias” for control of the oil-rich south and other Shiite sections of the country. [...] […] Proving myself right, I’ve again been ignoring Iraq news. Slate’s Fred Kaplan has some valuable details about the mess that’s engulfed Basra. The fighting in Basra, which has spread to parts of Baghdad, is not a clash between good and evil or between a legitimate government and an outlaw insurgency. Rather, as Anthony Cordesman, military analyst for the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies, writes, it is “a power struggle” between rival “Shiite party mafias” for control of the oil-rich south and other Shiite sections of the country. […]

]]> http://www.frozentoothpaste.com/2008/03/19/how-i-forgot-iraq/comment-page-1/#comment-3249 Annie Rhiannon Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:23:07 +0000 http://www.frozentoothpaste.com/2008/03/19/the-problem-of-iraq/#comment-3249 Great post. Great post.

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