The Iraqi documents released by Wikileaks produce significantly more detail on US actions in the war in Iraq, but do they produce…
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In Iraq and Afghanistan American and British forces became participants in civil wars which their own presence has exacerbated and prolonged. The…
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Herat is cut off from the rest of the planet. This was once one of the great cities of the world, an…
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