13/03/2023

Iraq, 20 years of world disasters

 

 This should be the most important political discussion of our time...

My little contribution to the debate is not out yet, but the war started 20 years ago this month, and we're still enormously harmful everywhere.

This morning, a must read: 






Long shadow of US invasion of Iraq still looms over international order


Tell me, how does this end?’ asked US general David Petraeus during first push to Baghdad in 2003

by  
The Guardian's Diplomatic editor


The French statesman Georges Clemenceau once said: “War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.” In the case of the invasion of Iraq, however, the war that began 20 years ago started in victory and has ended in a series of catastrophes.

(...)

The breathtaking mishandling of the biggest attempt at liberal interventionism since Vietnam is now acknowledged by almost all those involved. 


Read here: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/13/long-shadow-of-us-invasion-of-iraq-still-looms-over-international-order?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other 



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