No more Middle East crusades

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Author(s)	Dimitri K. Simes
Source	Los Angeles Times
Date	January 9, 2007
URL	http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-simes9jan09,0,4204678.story
Quote	"Washington might do well to ponder the limits of the U.S. responsibility to defend the corrupt and inept government of Prime Minister Nouri Maliki — a government heavily infiltrated by the very militias that the troop surge is supposed to destroy."

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This item argues against the position United States should increase troop levels on the topic Post-invasion Iraq.