Posted on Mar 30, 2023
Iraqi Journalist Ghaith Abdul-Ahad on How 2003 U.S. Invasion Led to Brutal Civil War & Rise...
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"In Part 2 of our interview with award-winning Iraqi journalist and author Ghaith Abdul-Ahad about the 20th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq and what followed, he discusses in detail how the 2003 U.S.-led invasion led to a brutal civil war and the rise of ISIS. He also discusses traveling to Syria and the rise of sectarianism, which he examines in his new book, A Stranger in Your Own City: Travels in the Middle East’s Long War"
Iraqi Journalist Ghaith Abdul-Ahad on How 2003 U.S. Invasion Led to Brutal Civil War & Rise...
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Good post...
From NOV 2007-NOV 2008, I served as a military advisor. When I told an Iraqi Command Sergeant Major that Americans were divided similar to the Vietnam War, he told me about a major difference. In Vietnam War, it was about America attempting to support a corrupt and unpopular South Vietnamese government against the North. In Iraq, it was about multiple factions who would fight among each other whenever America left.
From NOV 2007-NOV 2008, I served as a military advisor. When I told an Iraqi Command Sergeant Major that Americans were divided similar to the Vietnam War, he told me about a major difference. In Vietnam War, it was about America attempting to support a corrupt and unpopular South Vietnamese government against the North. In Iraq, it was about multiple factions who would fight among each other whenever America left.
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