[lbo-talk] CFR on civil war in Iraq

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Thu Mar 9 12:57:24 PST 2006


Doug Henwood wrote:
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> Times change, and sometimes minds change. (At that time, most Iraqis
> didn't want the US to leave; now they do.) In Aug 2003 few people had
> an inkling of how messy things would turn out. But I'll ask Christian
> when I interview him in about 2 hrs.

You are probably right. A deliberate aim at civil war (or "chaos") seems unlikely -- but only unlikely, not inconceivable. The outcome of such chaos might be the Balkanization of Iraq, which would be preferable, I presume, to a unified state under an anti-u.s. government.

Carrol



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