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The Fall Of Falluja Reveals The Tragic Futility Of
America's Strategy In The Middle East
Graham E. Fuller
The
World Post/ Huffington Post
23
January 2014
Graham E. Fuller
is a former senior CIA official, author of "A World Without Islam," a
memoir "Three Truths and a Lie," and the forthcoming "Turkey and
the Arab Spring."
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When is a war
"worth it?" It's a timeless question that still begs a decisive
response.
The debacle of
Iraq has now drifted off the scope Americans' attention -- US troops are no
longer dying there and new challenges beckon Washington elsewhere. Been there,
done that. The American part of the war may be over, and we have grown weary
hearing about it, but the Iraqi part of the war still continues. And with the
recent and symbolic fall, again, of Falluja to al-Qa'ida and other jihadis we
are forcefully reminded of the price that we paid in the American cleansing of
Falluja ten years ago -- for naught. Falluja, massively damaged, seems back to
square one.
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