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Letter From A Soldier: Answers You Won't Want To Hear

huffingtonpost.com — Steam control. The idea being that Iraq is a boiler, perpetually on the edge of explosion, that is only kept intact through a thousand tiny adjustments. This is the arduous, unappealing work of managing this particular place -- backroom promises, compromises, and buy-offs help to reduce the pressure and keep the peace.

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  • akt4pay, on 04/02/2008, -0/+0I've been saying this for the last year. It's nice to know that someone with actual boots on the ground and not just my armchair experience agrees. We can leave now and things will blow up over there. We can leave in 5,10,or 100 years and things will blow up over there, or we can stay and things will blow up over here as our infrastructure collapses and we become like the USSR of the late 80's.

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