Wonder if there's a bet pool on how long it'll take for Baghdad to be besieged. Post-US Iraq increasingly looks like post-Soviet Afghanistan
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@asteris I tend to think in terms of empire. But there's far more power and money in fomenting chaos and destabilizing alliances. -
@itsWanda old guys in corridors of power think solely in terms of empire, that's what got us into this congruence of messes. -
@asteris Yes + no. Cheney and his merry band of profiteers made more after Iraq fell apart than under Chalabi. Puppet theater, neocon style.
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