Peter W. Galbraith, a former U.S. ambassador to Croatia, is the senior diplomatic fellow at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation and a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books.
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The United States invaded Iraq with grand ambitions to bring it democracy and thereby transform the Middle East. Instead, Iraq has disintegrated into three constituent components: a pro-western Kurdistan in the north, an Iran-dominated Shiite entity in th... SEE MORE