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The arc of instability.
(From Arabies Trends)
The Americans came to Iraq with a clear military strategy, but without an equally precise vision of the countryOs political future. And that has led to disaster, argues Gareth Smyth.
Across the long history of Iraq, the Tigris and Euphrates have remained constants, flooding each
year between April and June, too late for winter crops and too early to ensure the summer
harvest. But the flow of these rivers ETH when channeled into systems of irrigation ETH made
possible in this hot, dry climate the flowering of a civilization rivaled in antiquity only by
Egypt. When the infrastructure of water was neglected, as under Persian occupation in the 5th
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