Send More Troops It's the Only Way to Save Iraq

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ARIF'S trattoria, just off Arasat Street, Baghdad, is a good place to g a u ge the prospects for Western policy in Iraq. With itsbare-brick walls, red-checked tablecloths and the only edible pasta between Amman and Karachi, it used to be full of foreigners escaping the daily grind of rebuilding the country.

Arif 's was a microcosm of what the whole of Iraq might some day become in the turbulent Middle East: an oasis of Western order and cleanliness amid the dust and chaos.

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Send More Troops It's the Only Way to Save Iraq

One evening last week, with the candlelight shining on empty tables, dropping in to Arif 's suddenly felt like a very stupid thing to do. The last place we should have been was somewhere known as a haunt of foreigners. We were, the staff told us, the only white people to come in after dark for the past se...

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