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Josef Joffe publisher/editor of Die Zeit
Underrated Victory in the Iraq war. Prospect reported it first in an article by Bartle Bull in the October 2007 issue. What sounded outlandish then, is the facts now. Casualty figures for coalition forces and Iraqi civilians have come to one-tenth of what they were in 2005/06, one province after the other has been turned over the Baghdad government—even Anbar, the one of the centres of the Sunni insurgency. Given the political convictions of most of the western media, it is clear why this trend was, and is, underreported: this is a war the US and its allies must not be allowed to win. Yet it is also a professional failure of historical dimensions.
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