Iraqi security forces blocked streets around Baghdad Monday as authorities investigated how bombers managed to severely damage the Justice Ministry and other government buildings in two synchronized car bombings, killing more than 150 people in the deadliest attacks this year. Was this blow to the heart of the Iraqi government a sign that Iraqi forces aren't prepared to keep the country safe without help from American troops? (Watch footage of the synchronized attacks in Iraq)
Of course Iraqis can't do it alone: So much for the conventional wisdom in Washington, says Andrew Sullivan in The Atlantic, which holds that "the Iraq war is over." If these massive, deadly car bombings are still happening with more than 120,000 American troops in the country, "what are the odds that Iraq will remain half-way peaceful and unified when/if the U.S. leaves?"
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