Robert Dreyfuss, author of Devil’s Game, discusses the coming pitfalls for the Iraq Status of Forces Agreement, the prospects for full withdrawal in the face of renewed ‘facts on the ground’ decision-making rhetoric, the many possible meanings of ‘residual forces,’ the political power struggles among the many Iraqi factions, the influence of foreign policy think tank agitators in the Obama administration, the tendency of U.S. diplomats to deliberately fail in ‘peace talks’ to create a pretense for military action and the need to shift the centrality of Iran/U.S. relations away from the nuclear issue.
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