Iraq: the Long War


	Iraq: the Long War

abailart

1-19-2008 3:03 AM

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Iraq and the mideast are historical unfoldings, not journalistic titillations. War and history are longterm and over decades. Children take years to grow into the bequeathed world.

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The Iraq war's relegation to the inside pages
of most newspapers and media outlets in the United States is part of a wider
decline in attention to areas where the country's political and military
interests remain deeply involved. There has been little coverage, for example,
of important events in Afghanistan and Pakistan in the first weeks of 2008 (see
"<A href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/global_security/iran_pakistan_danger">Iran and Pakistan: danger
signals</A>", 10 January
2008"). This relative neglect notwithstanding, a cluster of incidents in both
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The impact of the United States surge in Iraq
on the containment of the worst of the violence is being <A href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/014/561oumdm.asp">represented</A> in neo-conservative circles in Washington as
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