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...Science in International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School. A DREAM DEFERRED Only weeks after Sept. 11, Government professor Stephen P. Rosen ’74 signed a notorious open letter from the neo-conservative Project for a New American Century to President Bush advocating regime change in Baghdad. “Any strategy aiming at the eradication of terrorism and its sponsors must include a determined effort to remove Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq,” the letter read. Five years after the invasion, Rosen said in a recent interview that he is not sure whether...
...American leaders - and people - know what is going on in Iraq," said Hassan Suneid, a member of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's Dawa Party on Sunday. Senator John McCain's surprise visit to Baghdad, he said, was "only for the sake of his candidacy...
...McCain's trips have not always garnered the kind of publicity he may have liked. In early 2007, as the U.S. troop surge was getting underway, he pointed to his trip to a Baghdad market as proof that it was possible to "walk freely" in Baghdad, and that the media was not providing Americans with a full picture of the situation in Iraq. It was soon revealed that McCain had been accompanied on his market trip by two attack helicopters and dozens of American soldiers, calling into question his grasp of the situation...
...this be for real? My colleagues warn me against irrational exuberance. Some things have improved since the surge, they say, but many of Baghdad's dangers remain. Since I was here last, one of our Iraqi staffers has had to flee the country after receiving death threats. Two others have moved their families out, into Jordan and Syria, for their protection. Sami, who is driving me from the airport, tells me that Iraqis who are going to the airport still carry giant suitcases, stuffed to bursting point, a telltale sign they are not planning to return. My flight...
...many ways Karrada perfectly captures the new Baghdad: hope on one street and gloom on another. This is an improvement from a year ago, when often there seemed no hope at all - but much of the city remains enveloped in darkness, literal and metaphorical, that can't be hidden behind painted walls...