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...The danger is that Washington will either have to accept that its whole intervention into Iraq has been an abject failure, or attack the Sunni-controlled area with huge air strikes with the Baghdad army and Shia militias on the ground. The Iraqi army has not exactly distinguished itself in the face of the Sunni advance, largely fleeing without a fight. The Shia militias are divided. Accepting the Iraq intervention decisively failed would be the most rational action, but would also be a major blow to US credibility. It may be too high a price to pay. Large-scale air strikes, on the other hand, would be the start of the third US war against Iraq, and suck it deeper into the quagmire of civil war, with untold consequences for the whole region... https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/56764 -- “Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is humanity’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.” — Oscar Wilde, Soul of Man Under Socialism “The free market is perfectly natural... do you think I am some kind of dummy?” — Jarvis Cocker ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
