Iraq After America

Iraq After America

What a difference two years make. Little more than two years ago, Iraq seemed headed on a sure path to stability. The U.S.-Iraqi “surge” that ended the spiral of sectarian violence in 2007-08 culminated in the Iraqi electorate’s widespread rejection of sectarian parties in the provincial elections of early 2009. New cross-sectarian, nationalist coalitions were ascendant, the sectarian political space in which Al Qaeda and Shia militants thrived was dramatically reduced, and state institutions were finally recovering from their long post-2003 collapse. A new Iraqi state seemed to be emerging in which enduring U.S. interests—ensuring the stable flow of Iraq’s oil, denying Iraq as a base for terrorist groups, and preventing Iraq from destabilizing the broader region—would be secure.

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