Iraq

~ Clarissa

So the US chose to reward Al-Qaeda for 9/11 by handing Iraq over to it? And as a result of huge loss of American lives, Al-Qaeda now is occupying half of the country where it hadn’t a hope in hell before?

Fascinating.

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  1. If somebody is interested, just read on this topic “How Iraq Was Lost” – “powerful insider testimony in the Washington Post this weekend from Ali Khedery, one of the longest-serving American officials in Iraq”
    http://www.the-american-interest.com/blog/2014/07/07/how-iraq-was-lost/

    Another article I was interested in is “Have We Gone From a Post-War to a Pre-War World?” Hope he is wrong about “pre-war” part. If you read, would love to hear whether one should worry about it in your eyes.
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/walter-russell-mead/new-global-war_b_5562664.html?utm_hp_ref=world

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    1. An extremely superficial analysis.

      The long war over which form of nation-state provides the best standard of living has, indeed, been won by liberal democracy. That win is being rendered somewhat moot by the slow destruction of the nation-state but still. It makes absolutely no sense to analyze the present in terms of these comparisons with the past.

      Today the main question is what form of the state will step into the void left by the nation-state. This form of state will determine the way in which future wars will be fought. Of course, there is no possibility that there will be no future wars. The main challenge today is ensure these wars stay local and don’t turn global.

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      2. “Today the main question is what form of the state will step into the void left by the nation-state”

        Iraq has never been anything like a nation state so i’m not sure what the relevance is beyond being a good example of why the nation state came into existance in the first place.

        As I always said, the problem with Iraq is that there are no Iraqis there.

        As for what will replace the nation state I can see two basic (pretty dreary) alternatives:

        1. Iraq (constant lowgrade hostility between ethnic, religious and/or other groups that occasionally overheats into violent conflict with borders redrawn to reflect basic tribal distinctions. For a good model of this now – see the UK.

        2. Windows8-istan – Much like Iraq but with ubiquitous smartphones and idiot culture baubles to distract most of the people into complacency most of the time.

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