ve731c.jpg Chris Van Es

The Lasting Damage of Iraq

The folding of the American flag in Iraq amid a collapse of public security and a severe crisis in the country’s fragile political order seals a tragic chapter in US history. America now faces a time of reckoning, which should usher in a period of comprehensive strategic rebalancing.

MADRID – The folding of the American flag in Iraq amid a collapse of public security and a severe crisis in the country’s fragile political order seals a tragic chapter in the history of the United States. It marked the denouement of one of the clearest cases ever of the imperial overreach that former US Senator William Fulbright called the “arrogance of power.”

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