Where’s Our Man in Iraq?

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/06/opinion/06weston.html?scp=1&sq=our%20man%20in%20iraq&st=cse

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From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 12:56 PM
Subject: re: Where’s Our Man in Iraq?
To: letters@nytimes.com


To the Editor:

    "Convincing the fractious spectrum of Iraqi religious and ethnic communities that the United States remains committed to fostering an enduring nonsectarian Iraq" requires more than prompt installation of our man in Baghdad. It requires reversing years of Bush policy in which we armed and empowered the sectarian militias that aspire to tear the Iraqi state apart. We did this at the expense of building the non-sectarian national organizations that Mr. Weston endorses.  As pressing as is the need for an ambassador in Iraq, the need for a coherent policy is more urgent.

Barry Levine