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Belfast, Beirut and Baghdad |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / ANALYSIS |
| Author: Martin Sieff |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/2007 |
| Size: 898 Words, 5,953 Characters |
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The Bush administration has not yet begun to realize that the Iraq war has changed not just in intensity but in its very nature: Belfast and Beirut rules now apply in Baghdad.
At a high-level Pentagon planning conference on the Iraq insurgency in April 2006 two three-star generals attended and new tactics to cut down on IED attacks were much discussed. But participants told UPI that not a word was mentioned about the possibility of a Shiite militia uprising against U.S. forces in Baghdad and southern Iraq.
U.S. policymakers continue to describe the Iraq war as a straightforward "white hats versus black hats" face off between the U.S. armed forces in Iraq and the Iraqi army and security forces America has worked so hard to buil...
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...ary archives:
--"Peacekeeping in Lebanon," by Bennett Ramberg, January 2007 (Article #25392)
--"Awake in Belfast," by Patrick J. Sweeney, January 1992 (
href="http://www.worldandischool.com/subscribers/searchdetail.
asp?num=20201">Article #20201)
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