Patrick Cockburn explains:
When the US and Britain invaded Iraq, they started three wars. The first is the insurgency in the Sunni community against the American occupation; the second the struggle by the Iraqi Shia, sixty per cent of the population, allied to the Kurds, to take control of the Iraqi state, previously controlled by the Sunni; and the third a proxy war between the US and Iran about which of them is to have predominant influence in Iraq.
None is over yet. The third has barely started.
This article available online at:
http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2008/08/the-three-wars-in-iraq/213361/
