H.D.S. Greenway is a person with wonderful insight into many international situations. His weekly column in the Boston Globe focuses on the inevitable failure of the current surge in Iraq.
He is not the first to come to such a conclusion. However, his reasoning provides another basis for the conclusion.
Referencing the usual scenarios of an intervening power that either bolsters the existing government or secures power for the opposition, he notes that the US and its coalition has (1) undermined the existing (Sunis), (2) established a new power source (Shiites), only then (3) concluding that the new power based (Shiites) is not acceptable. Now, the US is fighting both the Sunni insurgents and the Shiite militia, confirming that everyone will only hate us more!
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