The End of a Country, and the Start of a New Dark Age

The End of a Country, and the Start of a New Dark Age
"The End of a Country, and the Start of a New Dark Age" -- In a terrifying excerpt from his essential new book, "The Jihadis Return: Isis and the New Sunni Uprising," veteran Middle East correspondent Patrick Cockburn describes the native barbarous forces overwhelming the region around Iraq, and the kind of society -- thanks in large part to the failed U.S. intervention there -- they look set to succeed in creating.
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