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Old 04-18-2004, 17:51   #1 (permalink)
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Default The Last Iraqi Insurgency

By NIALL FERGUSON

LONDON

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From Ted Kennedy to the cover of Newsweek, we are being warned that Iraq has turned into a quagmire, George W. Bush's Vietnam. Learning from history is well and good, but such talk illustrates the dangers of learning from the wrong history. To understand what is going on in Iraq today, Americans need to go back to 1920, not 1970. And they need to get over the American inhibition about learning from non-American history.

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