Donald Trump just said it on Wednesday: “You know, we blew up the Middle East, and we left. We got nothing out of it except a lot of death.” And a lot of societal upheaval. Trump’s words came a day after another sign of just how disastrous our incursion into Iraq really was: Iraq’s parliament approved a law stipulating that girls as young as nine years old could legally be married. Saddam Hussein’s Iraq generally followed more Western-style civil laws. But those days are long gone.
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The Associated Press reported Tuesday that “Iraq’s parliament passed three divisive laws Tuesday, including amendments to the country’s personal status law that opponents say would in effect legalize child marriage.” The amendments “would let clerics rule
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