Iraq

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  3/15/2023
  

  Iraq's Militarized Politics Keep the Country in Turmoil

  by Simona Foltyn

  Sectarian divisions and easy access to weapons have ensured that force remains a determinative factor in Iraqi politics.   

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• 3/21/2023
  

  The Iraq Invasion Turns 20

  Historians comment on the consequences of the invasion and efforts to control the narrative about how and why the US invaded. 

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• 12/11/2022
  

  How an Abstract "War on Terror" Became All Too Real in Iraq and Afghanistan

  by Roger Peace

  Politics drove the Bush administration to expand the scope of a military response to 9/11 to cover costly entanglements in Afghanistan and Iraq. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  8/3/2021
  

  Iraq Reclaims 17,000 Looted Artifacts, Its Biggest-Ever Repatriation

  "The institution that held about 12,000 of the items was the Museum of the Bible, a four-year-old Washington museum founded and funded by the Christian evangelical family that owns the Hobby Lobby craft store chain."

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• 7/4/2021
  

  My Parents' Survival Story Implies A Broader 'Intersectionality'

  by Ralph Seliger

  The attack on Baghdad's Jews in 1941 underscores the ongoing vulnerability of Jews to mob violence. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  2/6/2021
  

  In Beleaguered Babylon, Doing Battle Against Time, Water and Modern Civilization

  The ancient city of Babylon is a World Heritage Site, but it faces threats old and new. As some of its walls crumble, preservationists are fighting to preserve the past.

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  1/7/2021
  

  Will They Ever Be Over? The 20th Anniversary of the War on Terror Arrives

  by Nick Turse

  Trump's incoherent foreign policy presents Joe Biden an opportunity to take genuine steps to end the entanglements of the war on terror. 

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• 11/1/2020
  

  Trump Claims Credit for Defeating ISIS. Pentagon Documents Show Otherwise

  by Brian Glyn Williams

  A historian and scholar of the War on Terror says that Trump's claims of credit in the fight against ISIS are hot air. 

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• 8/2/2020
  

  30 Years Later: Saddam Hussein's Fateful Decision to Invade Kuwait

  by Guy Laron

  It was clear from the outset that this was a desperate gamble that put Iraq on a collision course with Washington. But Saddam believed he had no other choice but to stop Kuwait from dumping oil into a slack market.

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• SOURCE: Business Insider
  7/2/2020
  

  Democrats May Beat Trump in November and Still not Learn the Most Important Lesson from his Presidency

  by Daniel Bessner

  Democrats must not just defeat Trump; they must commit to fighting a culture of elite impunity that has enabled the rise of Trump and an unaccountable Republican Party. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/11/20
  

  Invaders, allies, occupiers, guests: A brief history of U.S. military involvement in Iraq

  For the past 17 years, the United States has maintained a military presence in Iraq.

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• 11/7/19
  

  The History Briefing on the Assassination of ISIS Founder Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi: How Historians Have Discussed Recent News

  by Lila Someshwar

  Historians give much-needed context to a complex issue. 

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• 10/24/19
  

  We Must Not Grow Numb To The Yazidi Genocide

  by Alon Ben-Meir

  The international community cannot grow numb to genocide, as this will continue to haunt us only with greater force. The Yazidis have paid the ultimate price, and no other ethnic group should be subjected to the same fate by any perpetrator with impunity, and with apathy from the international community.

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• 7/7/19
  

  The End of Humanitarian Intervention? A Debate at the Oxford Union With Historian David Gibbs and Michael Chertoff

  by David N. Gibbs

  Michael Chertoff -- former Secretary of Homeland Security during the presidency of George W. Bush and coauthor of the USA Patriot Act – defended humanitarian intervention; Gibbs argued against the practice. 

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  06/30/2019
  

  A drought revealed a palace thousands of years old submerged in an Iraq reservoir

  Excavation of a submerged reservoir leads to the discovery of an ancient palace known as Kemune. 

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• 6/9/19
  

  Arbella Bet-Shlimon Got Into History to Counter False Perceptions of Middle East Region

  by Erik Moshe

  She had a goal when she first started out in history: to use teaching, scholarship, and research to help offset spurious ideas that foster cruelty to Middle Easterners in the United States and prolong destructive foreign policy abroad.

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  3/13/19
  

  Long-Classified Memo Surfaces Warning of ‘Perfect Storm’ From Invading Iraq

  Diplomats accurately forecast many setbacks: sectarian violence, attacks on U.S. troops, Iranian intervention and long road to structural change.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  2/19/19
  

  A War Memorial Is Being Expanded. Some Say It Whitewashes History.

  The Australian War Memorial, at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars, will grow to commemorate recent conflicts, including war zones in which Australia still has troops.

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  2/14/19
  

  Veni, Vidi, Tweeti (I Came, I Saw, I Tweeted)

  by Tom Engelhardt

  An Obituary for the Republic

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• SOURCE: NYT
  12-10-2018
  

  Baghdad’s Fortified Green Zone Opens to Public After 15 Years

  The neighborhood, known as the Green Zone, had been cordoned off by the American military in 2003 to protect it from bombings during the war.