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Embedded in Iraq
By Michael Massing
"Embedded in Iraq", the title of Michael Massing’s article in the current issue of the New York Review of Books in the New York Review of Books, has a surprising double entendre. He concludes:
Iranian hegemony over Iraq: that is the Bush administration’s worst nightmare. The Iraq invasion was designed to project American power in the rgion at Iran’s expense; instead it has done the exact opposite.
By Thomas Powers
At a moment of serious challenge, battered by two wars, ballooning debt, and a faltering economy, the United States appears to have lost its capacity to think clearly. Consider what passes for national discussion on the matter of Iran. Go to article.
—New York Review of Books, Vol. LV, Number 12 July 17, 2008
