Iraq 2.0 Michael Crowley's June 30 cover story on the battle for control of Iraq was praised by Donna Price as "perhaps the most knowledgeable, well researched and written article on the growing Middle East nightmare that I've read." It also prompted Nelson Marans of Silver Spring, Md., to decry the "blame game being played... ranging from George Bush to Barack Obama. Perhaps we should look at the U.S. intelligence agencies, [which] made the call on weapons of mass destruction." Others debated what the next steps should be. "What to do in Iraq?" wrote Ron Lowe of Nevada City, Calif. "If you're a realist, you know that the Sunnis, allied with the extremely violent Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, have moved to within 40 miles of Baghdad. Do we let them overrun Iraq?" Jacob Brauner of London had another take: "Cooperating with Iran in combating ISIS will inevitably result in the strengthening of the Shi'ite militias. Aren't those militias as fanatic as their Sunni counterparts?"
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