Michael Totten, back stateside, has a great interview with Thomas Ricks covering his new book, his thoughts on the origins of the surge and where the situation in Iraq is going to go from here. It's well worth reading, though it is rather depressing to hear just how negative Ricks' view of Iraq's future is. He envisions Iraq becoming worse than Lebanon (which would be his ideal) and sees instead a country closely aligned with Iran, lead by a strongman in the vein of Saddam and before that all happens, a bloody civil war. So not a great prognostication.
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