Eric Rouleau, a former French ambassador to Turkey and an Arabist, argued on Radio France International that the U.S. military operation in Iraq seemed to have badly started, given the delay in taking Umm al-Qasr and Nasiriya.
You may be groaning that he's a Frenchman, but just out of curiosity could he be right?
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