Iraq - June 14th, 2014

Khouri asserts that the ISIS takeover of Mosul and other key areas in Iraq is due to long-simmering internal underlying trends, that have been augmented, but not caused by, external factors like the U.S. war; He considers many of the causes of war to be "Arab-made structural problems," including government corruption and incompetence, brittle statehood, lack of cohesion between ethnic and sectarian groups, and weak citizenship structures; The only solution he considers possible is the formation of a more democratic and inclusive government with economic policies that allow for growth http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Opinion/Columnist/2014/Jun-14/260077-the-isis-peril-clarifies-what-arabs-need.ashx#axzz34e2AcMhq

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