Blood Year: How we screwed up the fight against terror
Which was worse: Bush's recklessness or Obama's fecklessness?
Nathan Smith Fri, 11 Mar 2016
The Islamic State (IS) wouldn't exist if the US and its allies didn’t invade Iraq in 2003. Then again, removing US troops from Iraq in 2011 also created the terror group, according to a leading counter-insurgency expert.
Those are the seemingly contradictory conclusions of Australian adviser David
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