While the world has been fixed on the crisis in Israel and Lebanon...
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Even Churchill Couldn't Figure Out Iraq
The Bush Administration has created such a mess in Iraq that despairing military strategists are talking about drastic, flawed measures such as taking sides or partitioning Baghdad
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There is something very sinister to my mind in this mesopotamian
entanglement," Winston Churchill wrote his Prime Minister, David
Lloyd George, in August 1920. "Week after week and month after month
for a long time we shall have a continuance of this miserable,
wasteful, sporadic warfare marked from time to time certainly by
minor disasters and cuttings off of troops and agents, and very
possibly attended by some very grave occurrence."
