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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
Published by: Council on Foreign Relations
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20032651
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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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