Authors: Antony Blinken, Norman Ricklefs, and Ned Parker, 2011-2012 Edward R. Murrow Press Fellow
July/August 2012
Foreign Affairs
Iraq is hardly the failed state that Ned Parker portrayed in these pages, argues Antony Blinken, the U.S. vice president's national security adviser. Norman Ricklefs sees Iraq's politics becoming more moderate and less sectarian. Parker replies that despite these improvements, Baghdad still violates human rights and ignores the rule of law.
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