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Mark Lawson
Business editor reporting on global markets, corporate leadership, and economic trends. Known for in-depth analysis and interviews with key financial decision-makers.
Julia Bennett
Political correspondent with over a decade of experience covering international diplomacy, elections, and policy developments across Europe and the Middle East. Based in London.
Tom Reed
Technology and science reporter exploring AI, cybersecurity, and emerging innovation. Writes with a focus on the impact of technology on global politics and everyday.
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These are long‑term and complex challenges – they do and will affect our daily lives. It’s devastating to return home and find out the average person doesn’t give a crap about these things that have shaped mine and many other people’s adult lives.
But she meant to be kind, I am sure. I never knew why she refused to see any of her family, all of a sudden—some whim, I suppose. She came to be a sort of hermitess after a while.
Why did we not do more to stop the trends pulling Iraq apart? I don’t know. But here is what I suspect: The American people don’t care, and neither do our politicians. So, decisions were made on the fly and without as deep of thought that was necessary. These are long‑term and complex challenges – they do and will affect our daily lives. It’s devastating to return home and find out the average person doesn’t give a crap about these things that have shaped mine and many other people’s adult lives.
But this is not just about me. It is about Iraq. The result of our miscalculations, intellectual laziness and errors is that we are putting Special Operators in a scenario to work with Shiite militias and help bomb their enemies. In other words, we are conducting air strikes for Iranian proxies.
This tells us that, contrary to what our bureaucratic institutions report, our Iraq foreign policy has failed. The Lion of Iran has inhaled Iraq. An adviser to the Iranian President Rouhani, Ali Younis, boasted not long ago that “Baghdad is now the capital of the Iranian empire.” The Iraqis trust the seasoned killers of ISIS more than they trust us. Why? Because we have left, come back, and may leave again — but the killers aren’t going anywhere. If ISIS wants to terrorize the local population, that’s fine with the Shiite militias.