Bombs won’t be enough in the Age of Iraq

Obama is allowing himself to be drawn back into Iraq mostly because he doesn’t know what else to do, says Andrew J Bacevich

WE ARE now living in what we might as well admit is the Age of Iraq,” New York Times op-ed columnist David Brooks recently wrote.

There, in the Land of the Two Rivers, he continued, the US confronts the “core problem” of our era — “the interaction between failing secular governance and radical Islam”.