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Elliot Stewart

Elliot is a Middle East analyst and Arabic speaker who has spent over five years living and working in the region. His areas of expertise include state-controlled media strategies, extremist propaganda, and Shia militia groups. He is the 2020 Young Professionals in Foreign Policy Counter Terrorism fellow.

Admitting the Hard Reality of US Influence in Iraq

Opinion - June 15, 2020
cc The U.S. Army , Flickr, modified, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/, U.S. Army Spc. Christine Foster, with 478th Civil Affairs Company, is taught how to make flat bread by local Iraqi women during a routine meet and greet in the Al Rasheed area of Mahmudiyah, Iraq, May 5, 2007. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Jacob H. Smith) (Released)

Meting out vengeance in the name of counterterrorism has produced few tangible results in terms of expanding US influence in Iraq.

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