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Iraq today is America from 1776-1965?

From TNR, is a "soft partition" the answer in Iraq? Wait a minute, Crocker: Iraq today is America from 1776-1965? Officials in the U.S. government are pinning their hopes for Iraq's future on a bottom-up approach based on the success of the "Anbar Awakening". The death of history: The near total destruction of Iraq's historic past – the very cradle of human civilisation – has emerged as one of the most shameful symbols of our disastrous occupation. Cullen Murphy on how the war in Iraq might leave us a new word to match a new sense of our own limitations. Iraq and the politics of withdrawal: An article on lessons from US occupations in Latin America. Christopher Hitchens on why it was right to dissolve the Iraqi Army. A review of Gulliver Unbound: America’s Imperial Temptation and the War in Iraq by Stanley Hoffmann.