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Friday, March 17, 2023

Lessons from the Iraq War

20 Years On, a Question Lingers About Iraq: Why Did the U.S. Invade?
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/18/world/middleeast/iraq-war-reason.html

The real lesson of the Iraq invasion? Beware spies and allies who would drag you to war
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/17/iraq-war-spies-labour-invasion-conflict
 
The Lessons Not Learned from Iraq
https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/03/17/iraq-war-anniversary-lessons-bush-biden-afghanistan/
Twenty years on, the war still shapes policy—mostly for the worse.
 
Iraq and the Pathologies of Primacy
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/iraq-and-pathologies-primacy
The Flawed Logic That Produced the War Is Alive and Well