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Every time there is a major security shake-up in Iraq, a specific question arises in political and popular Iraqi discourse: “What shall we do?” This question should be preceded by another, more important question: “What did we do?”
Apart from the talk about the role of politics in achieving social peace, and considering security failure as a political failure in the first place, there is more than one single defect in the Iraqi security system. Yet the most prominent defect is related to serious doubts over the existence of a well-defined security strategy to face major challenges.
