Iraq, a Retrospective

Martin Peretz, who writes for The New Republic, takes a look back over our eight year involvement with Iraq just ended and our ten year military expedition in Afghanistan which is winding down, with side comments about the troubles in Syria and in Egypt. It is very worth reading.

It is a part of the world where things seem to go from bad to worse. His evaluation of events in the region is more-or-less uniformly gloomy. Making unhappy predictions about its future seems the only sensible thing to do.