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From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 9:42 AM
Subject: re: Iraq Provinces Try to Overcome Political Disarray
To: letters@nytimes.com
To the Editor:
From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 9:42 AM
Subject: re: Iraq Provinces Try to Overcome Political Disarray
To: letters@nytimes.com
To the Editor:
In 2007 under cover of the Surge, the Bush administration reversed course on Iraq. We began to build, arm and empower sectarian militias at the expense of non-sectarian national institutions. Predictably, this has not led to a smooth integration of the provinces into a peaceful unified state; the U.S. forces are called on it intervene between the factions. Barring partition of the country, this policy will lead either to an indefinite U.S. presence to keep peace, or to bloody civil war. If the Obama administration means to honor its campaign rhetoric of withdrawal from Iraq, it must reverse this Bush-era policy of arming sectarian militias there. If it ever means to find an exit from Afghanistan, it will refrain from making the same mistake in that country.
Barry Levine
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