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|quote="In Iraq, American policies have steadily undermined the Iraqi people's confidence that the United States has either the will or capacity to provide them the security they need and deserve. So they have turned to their own sectarian armed groups for the protection the Bush administration has failed to provide. That, and not historical inevitability or the alleged failings of the Iraqi people, is what has brought Iraq closer to civil war."
|quote="In Iraq, American policies have steadily undermined the Iraqi people's confidence that the United States has either the will or capacity to provide them the security they need and deserve. So they have turned to their own sectarian armed groups for the protection the Bush administration has failed to provide. That, and not historical inevitability or the alleged failings of the Iraqi people, is what has brought Iraq closer to civil war."
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{{additional_author|William Kristol}}
{{Opinion|Post-invasion Iraq|United States should increase troop levels|for}}
 
{{Opinion|Post-invasion Iraq|Coalition troops should pull out|against}}
{{opinion|Post-invasion Iraq|United States should increase troop levels|for}}
{{opinion|Post-invasion Iraq|Coalition troops should pull out|against}}

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Author(s) Robert Kagan, William Kristol
Source The Weekly Standard
Date November 13, 2006
URL http://weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/012/935lhpfm.asp
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Quotes-start.png "In Iraq, American policies have steadily undermined the Iraqi people's confidence that the United States has either the will or capacity to provide them the security they need and deserve. So they have turned to their own sectarian armed groups for the protection the Bush administration has failed to provide. That, and not historical inevitability or the alleged failings of the Iraqi people, is what has brought Iraq closer to civil war." Quotes-end.png


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