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|source=Los Angeles Times
|source=Los Angeles Times
|date=June 28, 2006
|date=June 28, 2006
|url=http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-boot28jun28,1,5095761.column?coll=la-news-columns
|url=http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-boot28jun28,1,5095761.column
|quote="By now it should be obvious that the "light footprint" approach has not worked. It has increased, not decreased, resentment of the United States because Iraqis are aggrieved by the breakdown of law and order. Yet there appears to be no serious rethinking of this flawed strategy at either the Pentagon or the White House."
|quote="By now it should be obvious that the "light footprint" approach has not worked. It has increased, not decreased, resentment of the United States because Iraqis are aggrieved by the breakdown of law and order. Yet there appears to be no serious rethinking of this flawed strategy at either the Pentagon or the White House."
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{{opinion|Post-invasion Iraq|Coalition troops should pull out|against}}
{{opinion|Post-invasion Iraq|Coalition troops should pull out|against}}
{{opinion|Post-invasion Iraq|United States should change its approach|for}}
{{opinion|Post-invasion Iraq|United States should increase troop levels|for}}

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Author(s) Max Boot
Source Los Angeles Times
Date June 28, 2006
URL http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-boot28jun28,1,5095761.column
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Quotes-start.png "By now it should be obvious that the "light footprint" approach has not worked. It has increased, not decreased, resentment of the United States because Iraqis are aggrieved by the breakdown of law and order. Yet there appears to be no serious rethinking of this flawed strategy at either the Pentagon or the White House." Quotes-end.png


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