We've Lost. Here's How To Handle It.

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Author(s)	Steve Simon, Ray Takeyh
Source	The Washington Post
Date	June 17, 2007
URL	http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/15/AR2007061502078.html
Quote	"In fact, history suggests that the consequences of a U.S. defeat will not be that dire. First, the risk of a regional Shiite-Sunni war is modest. The region has endured many civil wars: Algeria, Lebanon, Oman, Pakistan, Yemen. While some have drawn in outsiders, none has led to war among those outsiders. Such meddlers tend to seek advantage in their neighbors' civil wars, not to spread them, which is why they rely on proxies to do their fighting."

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This item argues for the position Coalition troops should pull out on the topic Post-invasion Iraq.