This article by John Judis really does bring a touch of clarity to the impossibly fuzzy topic of Iraq. It’s unusually balanced, discarding the war-for-oil argument and offering plausible reasons for how Bush & Co. got to where they are today (i.e., in a real mess).
(Courtesy of Josh Marshall, who has an interesting update on the GOP Marketplace scandal, which seems to have been totally ignored by the mainstream media.)
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Richard Burger is the author of Behind the Red Door: Sex in China, an exploration of China's sexual revolution and its clash with traditional Chinese values.
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