"Iraq is “on the cusp" of collapsing into civil war, the United Nations’ chief of human rights in the..."

“Iraq is “on the cusp" of collapsing into civil war, the United Nations’ chief of human rights in the country has said, after months of brutal sectarian attacks which are more viciously divisive than the violence seen five years ago that left tens of thousands dead.”



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Slow hand clap for everyone who said we would bring them freedom and democracy through precision bombing etc. A faster clap for the ‘realist’ strategic theorists, a group often associated with ‘the Right’, several of whom strongly cautioned against the notion of an easy war bringing peace.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-07-05/iraq-bloodshed-surge/4796218

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