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1 year ago

in Brookings Benchmarks: An (Incomplete, Kinda-Sorta-Not Really) Explanation on The Washington Independent
Does O'Hanlon ever lay out exactly what his 11 benchmarks are? The congressional benchmarks from last year numbered 18, I'd like to know what was dropped. From the above I get



- Provincial election law

- Long term oil law

- Kirkuk(?)

- Provincial Powers Act

- Federal funding for provincial governments

- Amnesty for Baathists

- Purging extremists from government

- Integrating Sunni militias into federal forces(?)



That leaves three unaccounted for.

1 year ago

in Complexity, Intellectuals and Iraq on The Washington Independent
"The war swept up millions of lives..."
"By then the war was not about nothing. No war ever is."
"The war began as folly; it became a tragedy..."

It's quite romantic, that war.
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