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Originally Posted by ubertuber
It would be quite embarrassing to have to abandon it if conditions in the city were to deteriorate.
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Exactly.
I find it amazing that the Americans feel so confident and emboldened as to build such a symbolically political structure amidst what is seemingly total political chaos and civil war. It is as if they are somehow privy to the final diplomatic status between the 2 nations. The massive size of the thing even seems to hammer home the inevitability of it all. Do the Americans even know what the final borders of Iraq are going to look like? Are they even sure Iraq won't become an anti-American and Islamic fundamentalist regime in the model of Iran? Seems like the cart is before the horse here.