This article in todays Washington Post is a synopsis of Andrew Bacevichs EdX course - The War for the Greater Middle East. The current intervention is, according to Bacevich, the 13th by the US in the Middle East since 1980. Want to measure what America’s war for the Middle East has accomplished through its first 13 iterations? The Islamic State has to rank prominently on any list of achievements. If Iraq possessed minimally effective security forces, Islamic State militants wouldn’t have a chance. But the Iraqi army we created won’t fight, in considerable measure because the Iraqi government we created doesn’t govern. washingtonpost/opinions/even-if-we-defeat-the-islamic-state-well-still-lose-the-bigger-war/2014/10/03/e8c0585e-4353-11e4-b47c-f5889e061e5f_story.html
Posted on: Mon, 06 Oct 2014 03:58:51 +0000