Mr. Mesopotamia’s Wild Ride

Today, American intelligence officials issued a report stating that “The government of Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki will become ‘more precarious’ over the next six months to a year, and while its security forces have improved they are not strong enough to operate without outside help.” Does anyone else get the feeling that the delicate balance between the security of Iraq and its people and the health of the country’s government will continue to teeter back and forth for the next, oh I don’t know, one thousand years as it has for the last one thousand?

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  1. [...] Mary Mancini on political stability in Iraq: Does anyone else get the feeling that the delicate balance between the security of Iraq and its people and the health of the country’s government will continue to teeter back and forth for the next, oh I don’t know, one thousand years as it has for the last one thousand? Share and Enjoy: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. [...]

  2. Glenn Closer says:

    Oh I don’t know…the more I know about American intelligence officials, the more I think they’re probably more interested in being official than in actually having any intelligence.

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