Attacks in Iraq Heighten Political Tensions

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/17/world/middleeast/17iraq.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=attacks%20in%20iraq%20heighten%20political%20tension&st=cse

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From: barry levine 
Date: Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 11:15 AM
Subject: re: Attacks in Iraq Heighten Political Tensions
To: letters@nytimes.com


To the Editor:

  Since the day we first underwrote the Awakening Councils, the Iraqi Sectarian Civil War has merely been on hiatus.  Everyone there knows it will erupt the day the Yankees are no longer imposing calm. We will try to delay and to disguise that day, but the American people have no stomach to occupy Iraq indefinitely as we already occupy Germany, Japan and South Korea.  One day, one of these attacks will show that we are no longer on patrol; that day, the Civil War goes hot.

Barry Levine