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- Iraq doesn’t need to break up to be successful (so says a scholar at Brookings)
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- The Muddled Mystique of Karl Polanyi
- The prison house of gender
- Investigating Madison’s Political Religion (central planning is hard to do)
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I think you and I have different readings of the Brookings piece. All in all, I think it makes a stronger case for breakup than it does for the militias ‘going gentle into that good night’.
I think you’re right that it makes a stronger case for breakup, though the overt case is for Iraq remaining as-is. Alaaldin seems resigned to the fact that Iraq is undoable without the presence of a strong man, but he can’t bring himself to admit that Iraq as a state and an idea is a complete and utter failure.
You can read between the lines and see that Alaaldin is defending a lost cause and he knows it.