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David Petraeus
David Petraeus
# 49
The Insurgents, Part II: Fighting the Left by Being the Left
Nato Thompson
I have to thank Rijin Sahakian for a reasonable rebuttal to the first half of my essay. It is certainly unreasonable for me as someone who resides in the United States to gloss over the violence and destruction of the Iraq War. It was not my intention to say that the efforts of COIN were in fact effective in actually “protecting the population,” but instead to point out a methodology of social relationships that worked in tandem with violence. I have no desire to be a provocateur in regards…
e-flux Journal
Posted: November 1, 2013
Category
War & Conflict
Subjects
Socially Engaged Art, Militarization, Academia, USA, Middle East