Ten years on, a question arises: Was Iraq war America’s biggest blunder? - Herkimer, NY - The Times

Ten years on, a question arises: Was Iraq war America’s biggest blunder?

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By Pat Cunningham

 

Peter van Buren, a retired 24-year-veteran of the U.S. State Department, offers an ANSWER to the question in the headline above:

Not to put too fine a point on it, but the invasion of Iraq turned out to be a joke. Not for the Iraqis, of course, and not for American soldiers, and not the ha-ha sort of joke either. And here’s the saddest truth of all: on March 20th as we mark the 10th anniversary of the invasion from hell, we still don’t get it. In case you want to jump to the punch line, though, it’s this: ...

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