[Marxism] Has the 'Surge' in Iraq Worked?

[Dbachmozart@xxxxxxx]

The fact is  that the United States is decidedly weaker everywhere in the 
Middle East in the  eighteen months since the surge began. Has it not been in 
part, maybe in large  part, precisely because of the surge? The Middle East 
today 
is like a large  geopolitical balloon. If you squeeze it at one point, the 
air will simply  displace itself to another point. And the balloon is getting 
more fragile all  the time. It is on the verge of bursting.
 
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