Blind in Baghdad

Mesopotamia is once again descending into sectarian violence. Too bad nobody in the United States understands what's happening on the ground.

BY MICHAEL KNIGHTS | JULY 5, 2012

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Michael Knights is a Lafer fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. He travels regularly to Iraq and has written a number of books and reports on the country's security and politics, most recently "The Iraqi Security Forces: Local Context and U.S. Assistance."