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Ποιος ήταν –άραγε- ο Αριστείδης Στεργιάδης, ο οποίος «έφυγεν από τον τόπον αυτόν, τον οποίον με τόσον αγέρωχον και περιφρονητικόν τρόπον εκυβέρνα, ως φυγάς, χωρίς κάν εγκαίρως να λάβη πρόνοιαν δια την αναχώρησιν τού πληθυσμού, χωρίς να ειδοποιήση τουλάχιστον εγκαίρως αυτούς δια να λάβουν ατομικώς τα μέτρα των»; Διαβάστε το κείμενο που ακολουθεί!..
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The United States’s engagement in the Middle East since 2001 would be a comedy of errors but for the fact that it is not funny. It all began with the exploitation of a befuddled President George W. Bush by a group of neoconservative advisers who had long planned to invade Iraq and oust its President Saddam Hussein using phony arguments about Baghdad being a nest of terrorists and a repository of weapons of mass destruction. The bungled occupation was followed by a prolonged case of democracy building that essentially destroyed Iraq as a nation and eventually led to a sectarian government closely tied to neighboring Iran that had the temerity to ask U.S. forces to leave at the end of 2011.
Overall, George Bush’s…
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