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THE LOW POST: Treading Water in Iraq
How 20,000 additional troops seems to confirm a shockingly stupid (and apparently accidental) plan for perpetual occupation
Proponents of escalation cite the example of Tal Afar, a town in northwestern Iraq. U.S. forces there have met some genuine success since September 2005 with the "clear, build and hold" strategy that Mr. Bush apparently now favors for Baghdad.

But Tal Afar is only about one-thirtieth the size of Baghdad, and it isn't even Arab: Its people are mostly members of the Turkmen minority. Trying to replicate that (limited) success in Baghdad is a fool's errand.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/13141451/the...s_a_surge_in_my_soup
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