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Iraq Teeters on the Brink
Iraq appears to be reaping the negative consequences of both the Bush Administration's invasion and the Obama Administration's withdrawal. ISIS has exploited differences between Sunnis and Kurds, and the Shia are divided among themselves. For the US, are there any good options?
By Warren Olney • • 52m ListenIraq appears to be reaping the negative consequences of both the Bush Administration's invasion and the Obama Administration's withdrawal. ISIS has exploited differences between Sunnis and Kurds, and the Shia are divided among themselves. For the US, are there any good options?
Later on the program, terrorism is much in the news, but political freedom means Americans will always be vulnerable.
Photo: Followers of Iraq's Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr storm Baghdad's Green Zone after lawmakers failed to convene for a vote on overhauling the government, in Iraq April 30, 2016. (Khalid al Mousily/Reuters)
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