Emile Nakhleh — Inauspicious Anniversaries and Lessons Unlearned

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Sad story of American liberal interventionism putatively based on spreading freedom and democracy gone wrong in the Middle East, told by an insider. Is the US getting ready to repeat that mistake in Iran after Iraq has been generally admitted as a strategic blunder?LobeLogInauspicious Anniversaries and Lessons Unlearned Emile Nakhleh | Senior Intelligence Service officer and Director of the Political Islam Strategic Analysis Program at the Central Intelligence Agency, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and Research Professor and Director of the Global and National Security Policy Institute at the University of New MexicoSee alsoSunni-Shi'a rivalry.FDD's Long War JournalHamza bin Laden warns of Shiite expansion in the Middle East Thomas JoscelynSee alsoTom DispatchTomgram:

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