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POST: A New Power Rises in Iraq

Cool blog post on traveling to Kurdistan today versus year ago.

Our most successful nation-building effort since German and Japan--a huge success, in fact.

So when the competing histories of postwar Iraq reach a consensus, they will say: Kurdistan a success because it wanted to be; Shiite Iraq a partial success because of Sunni-driven sectarian violence (fueled by nasty outsider to a certain extent); and Sunni Iraq a complete failure.

With the dream of a unitary Iraq finally faded, the realistic outcomes become clearer.

Basis of my column this upcoming weekend.

Thanks to Pat O'Connor for sending this.