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The Price of the Surge: How U.S. Strategy Is Hastening Iraq's Demise

Steven Simon
Foreign Affairs
Vol. 87, No. 3 (May - Jun., 2008), pp. 57-72, 74-76
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20032651
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The Price of the Surge: How U.S. Strategy Is Hastening Iraq's Demise

Abstract

The Bush administration's new strategy in Iraq has helped reduce violence. But the surge is not linked to any sustainable plan for building a viable Iraqi state and may even have made such an outcome less likely--by stoking the revanchist fantasies of Sunni tribes and pitting them against the central government. The recent short-term gains have thus come at the expense of the long-term goal of a stable, unitary Iraq.

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