Iraq Press https://www.iraqpress.org/ Independent Voices from the Heart of the Middle East en Sun, 27 Sep 2026 16:17:44 GMT Blind Spots and Broken Assumptions: How Washington Has Repeatedly Misread Iraq https://www.iraqpress.org/washington-misreading-iraq-policy-failures-analysis/ https://www.iraqpress.org/washington-misreading-iraq-policy-failures-analysis/ For more than two decades, successive U.S. administrations have crafted Iraq policy on assumptions that bore little resemblance to the country's actual political landscape. Iraqi analysts and declassified records reveal a persistent gap between Washington's theoretical frameworks and Baghdad's lived reality — a gap that continues to shape, and distort, American strategy across the broader Middle East. Iraq Press Analysis Sun, 27 Sep 2026 16:15:27 GMT