June 2014

Syr-aq and oil

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This last weekend, on June 21, I heard both an NPR reporter and a Guardian reporter argue that the border between Syria and Iraq had disappeared, and the conflict is now a single conflict spanning both countries. Humvees which had been supplied by Americans to the Iraqi government were abandoned during their hasty retreat, and […]

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ISIS, Kurds, Iraq, and Syria

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I don’t post blogs often, because of my teaching and writing load. However my last post, six weeks ago, seemed prescient. There was striking evidence of the remarkably low legitimacy of the Maliki Government in the eyes of the Iraqi people. It seemed, at that time, that the entire American project in Iraq since 2003

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