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Tag: Iraq War
‘Regime Change’ Strategy Spreads Chaos
More Incoherence in Syria Policy
The Islamic State Conundrum
Ron Paul and Lost Lessons of War
Iraq’s Off-Point ‘Reforms’
After a U.S.-engineered “regime change” comes the dreamy period of “reform” — redrawing organizational boxes, slashing government programs and “privatizing” national assets, but rarely a commitment to realistic compromise among rival ethnic and political forces, as ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar describes in Iraq.