The Real Iraq: A Moment of Truth
“To most of us, Iraq is an abstraction that, at best, vaguely resembles reality on the ground. A new book by Michael Yon, however, reveals the real Iraq — and why we face a moment of truth of historic proportions.”
From an excellent new article by Michael Totten at the Atlasphere:
Iraq is where ideologies go to die.
Arab nationalism, Baathism, anti-Americanism, al-Qaidism, Donald Rumsfeldism, and Moqtada al-Sadrism have either died there or are dying.
Conventional liberal opinion, more or less correct about the foundering American war effort from 2004 to 2006, has been severely bloodied — along with Iraq’s worst insurgent groups and militias — by General David Petraeus’s leadership of the American troop surge.
Even post-9/11 fear of Islam has proven unsustainable for those who regularly interact with ordinary Iraqis.
Read the full article to learn why the next year will have a dramatic impact on the fate of the Middle East.
