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Tomgram: Peter Van Buren, The Great War in the Middle East
Sometimes I imagine the last 14 years of American war
policy in the Greater Middle East as a set of dismal Mad Libs. An
example might be: The United States has spent [your choice of multiple
billions of dollars] building up [fill in name of Greater Middle
Eastern country]’s army and equipping it with [range of weaponry of
your choosing]. That army was recently routed by the [rebel or
terrorist group of your choice] and fled, abandoning [list U.S.
weaponry and equipment]. Washington has just sent in more [choose
from: trainers/weaponry/equipment/
all of the above] and [continue the
sentence ad infinitum]. Or here’s another: After [number, and make it
large] years and a [choose one or more: war, air war, drone
assassination campaign, intervention, counterinsurgency program,
counterterror effort, occupation] in [Greater Middle Eastern country of
your choice] that seems to be [choose from: failing, unraveling, going
nowhere, achieving nothing], the [fill in office of top U.S. official
of your choice] has just stated that a U.S. withdrawal would be [choose
from: counterproductive, self-defeating, inconceivable, politically
unpalatable, dangerous to the homeland, mad] because [leave this blank,
since no one knows].
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