Military success in Iraq masks failures on other goals (USATODAY.com) Posted on July 2nd
It’s naive to think that all these problems would have been solved by now, or even that all of them can be solved before the U.S. withdraws. Iraq is too tribal, too complex and too new to democracy for that. But if the U.S. is to keep the Iraq war from ending like the one in Vietnam, which it can, then it will at least need a competent Iraqi army and a competent Iraqi government to take over. Despite all the good news about declining casualties, that goal still appears more distant than either the U.S. or Iraqi public would like, and that casts hopes for a successful, rapid withdrawal into doubt.
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