Malarkey on the Potomac

(Before It's News)

By Andrew J. Bacevich, TomDispatch

Unlike my friend M, the well-informed and normally sober Washington Post columnist David Ignatius clings to the fantasy that “Iraq” is or ought to be politically viable, militarily capable, and socially cohesive. But surely this qualifies as wishful thinking.

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