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no bull and the aftermath.

We've got to recognize that military force without that critical political components

will be at best useless and at worst could be counterproductive.

I want to say very, very clearly because apparently I've been too subtle over the last few

days and a number of people have been mistaking what I've been saying.

I think it would be a mistake for the United States to embark on an air campaign in Iraq,

either unilaterally or in conjunction with the Iraqi government as it is currently constituted.

We need to recognize that what has driven Iraq into this state of affairs is a whole variety

of actions by a variety of different Iraqi leaders but first and foremost among them Prime

Minister Maliki.

I'm Rithika Singh and this is the LawFair podcast June 21, 2014.

That was Ken Pollock you just heard, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution who

along with Michael Hanlon and Susan Maloney to other Brookings scholars spoke about the

crisis in Iraq.

The disintegration of the country has dominated newspaper headlines this week.

The Obama administration just announced it will send 300 military advisors to Iraq and

it said earlier in the week that 275 U.S. armed forces personnel were deploying to provide

security for the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad.

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