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Please Define "Civil War"
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Originally posted by Sidd Finch
AP story -- Pentagon reports that sectarian violence in Iraq is spreading beyond Baghdad (to Kirkuk and Basra, among other places), and conditions for civil war are in place.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060901/...t_pe/us_iraq_1
but, not a civil war yet.
Is there an operative definition of "civil war"? How will we know when there is one, or when one has been really avoided?
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Someone (I think it was the guy who worked on figuring out what the fuck to do with the old Yugoslavia for Bush I and Clinton) on NPR yesterday was differentiating between a "conventional civil war" (the old Yugoslavia) and an "unconventional civil war" (Iraq now). It must have been James Dobbins. I don't remember the difference in the two situtations, but pretty much everyone they interviewed seemed united in the proposition that the US needs to start thinking about pulling out and letting Iraq be run by Iraqis.
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