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By Monica Duffy Toft | Monday, November 13, 2006 | The Washington Post

Monica Duffy Toft is an associate professor of public policy at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. She is the author of “The Geography of Ethnic Violence” and is finishing a book on the termination of civil wars. Her position here is that whatever the outcome of the current civil war – a military victory (possibly via an outside invasion), a negotiated peace or a stalemate with division – the very concept of Iraq as a single nation is obsolete – just as we say and think “former Yugoslavia” – and there are many parallels to post-Tito Yugoslavia in Post-Saddam Iraq, nicely laid out…BS

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