Sitting on Bayonets: America's Postwar Challenges in Iraq

Sitting on Bayonets: America's Postwar Challenges in Iraq

Mini Teaser: Michael Eisenstadt reckons that the Bush Administration sees the light at the end of the.... Well, let's just say in could be worse.

by Author(s): Michael Eisenstadt

The Bush Administration must reconcile itself to its diminishing influence in Iraq and its inability to control or master the forces unleashed by its war there. But if the Administration acts with a realistic grasp of what is possible and intervenes only when and where essential, it may yet succeed in helping to create a new Iraq that may be far from a model democracy but still worthy of America's support.

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