Opinion by Rajiv Chandrasekaran: 20 years later, despite America’s carelessness, Iraq is recovering
on the country’s growth. All of this has occurred in spite of the mistakes made by American civilians during the U.S. occupation.
Those talented Iraqis, aided by revenue from oil exports, have been a key reason Iraq looks so much better today. But could we have gotten here without the loss of so much blood and treasure?It might be tempting to argue that the Iraqis ended up transcending the occupation and what came after, fighting through their differences to achieve detente among rival factions. That ignores all that we did, through our carelessness and incompetence in the early years, to make the problem worse.
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