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From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 2:12 PM
Subject: re: Storm of Violence in Iraq Strains Its Security Forces
To: letters@nytimes.com
Throughout 2007 and 2008, the U.S. armed and empowered sectarian militias in Iraq at the expense of building non-partisan national institutions. It was entirely predictable at that time that this would cause a sectarian bloodbath if the U.S. were ever to withdraw. Our first MBA ex-president could explain to us that in the business world, this is called a "poison-pill" strategy to cling to power, or to cripple a successor regime. In national politics, it smells like treason.
From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 2:12 PM
Subject: re: Storm of Violence in Iraq Strains Its Security Forces
To: letters@nytimes.com
Throughout 2007 and 2008, the U.S. armed and empowered sectarian militias in Iraq at the expense of building non-partisan national institutions. It was entirely predictable at that time that this would cause a sectarian bloodbath if the U.S. were ever to withdraw. Our first MBA ex-president could explain to us that in the business world, this is called a "poison-pill" strategy to cling to power, or to cripple a successor regime. In national politics, it smells like treason.
Barry Levine
To the Editor:
I confess, there were years in which I grumbled about government of the People, by the Lawyers and for the Donors. Eight years of our only MBA president has taught me how foolish I was; Lawyers as presidents have worked for goals much farther in the future than did George W. Bush. Throughout the last two years of his term, president Bush worked for the quarterly statement of GIs dead in Iraq, rather than for peace. The result was a strategy of arming sectarian militias rather than building national non-partisan institutions. This led predictably to the recent rise in sectarian strife and the renewed prospect that American troops may be stuck in Iraq for the indefinite future.
I confess, there were years in which I grumbled about government of the People, by the Lawyers and for the Donors. Eight years of our only MBA president has taught me how foolish I was; Lawyers as presidents have worked for goals much farther in the future than did George W. Bush. Throughout the last two years of his term, president Bush worked for the quarterly statement of GIs dead in Iraq, rather than for peace. The result was a strategy of arming sectarian militias rather than building national non-partisan institutions. This led predictably to the recent rise in sectarian strife and the renewed prospect that American troops may be stuck in Iraq for the indefinite future.
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