“Going Native”
Chester, at his TCS home, outlines (another) recipe for failure in Iraq: he thinks the solution involves scaling up forces, a large scale Arabic linguist program, and US control of the Iraqi military.
The problem is now that primary loyalties are progressively reverting to tribes the number of Iraqis who care about the nation-state of Iraq is exponentially decreasing.
-Shlok
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