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Opinion: A Broken System

Opinion: A Broken System

by | Apr 15, 2013 | Opinion

If the 1991 war was about a restoration of the Arab state system, the 2003 war, coming in the wake of the shock of 9/11, called its very legitimacy into question. However much it bungled the first year of the American occupation of Iraq, the Bush administration by its...