Tom Teepen: Mission in Iraq Is Still Not Accomplished
San Gabriel Valley Tribune › April 08, 2008
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AS the aftermath from the recent flare-up of fighting in Basra and Baghdad unwinds, the long-term prospects for the surge of U.S. troops in Iraq appear cloudier than ever. The troops are rightly credited for tamping down general violence, but claims of the policy's success are nonetheless plainly premature at best.
The surge's violence suppression was never the policy's goal but only the means to the intended end - a broad internal political reconciliation that would regularize governance and so isolate insurgents that Iraq's own military, trained up for the task, could reduce them to irrelevance.See the full content of this document
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Tom Teepen: Mission in Iraq Is Still Not Accomplished
The recent spasm of fighting exposed just how distant and improbable that goal remains, and the ceasefire that has ended it for no...
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