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We’re Four Months Into the New Iraq War. Has Anything Gone Right?

Mother Jones

This story first appeared on the TomDispatch website.

Karl von Clausewitz, the famed Prussian military thinker, is best known for his aphorism “War is the continuation of state policy by other means.” But what happens to a war in the absence of coherent state policy?

Actually, we now know. Washington’s Iraq War 3.0, Operation Inherent Resolve, is what happens. In its early stages, I asked sarcastically, “What could possibly go wrong?” As the mission enters its fourth month, the answer to that question is already grimly clear: just about everything. It may be time to ask, in all seriousness: What could possibly go right?

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We’re Four Months Into the New Iraq War. Has Anything Gone Right?

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