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Subscribe to VICE News here: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-VICE-News VICE News and The New York Review of Books have teamed up to create Talking Heads, a series about the big issues of the day as seen by The Review’s most renowned contributors. In this episode of Talking Heads, Mark Danner discusses his New York Review of Books essay, “Iraq: The New War.” Danner wrote this essay in mid-2003, outlining how American policy during the Iraq War in many ways effectively helped incite what was then an emerging insurgency. For starters, the occupation of Iraq post-9/11 created a broad front to which militant jihadists began to flock. The mishandling of the Iraqi army sent thousands of highly-trained, angry men into the streets with no jobs. And photos of Iraqis being tortured by American personnel at the Abu Ghraib prison provided telegenic images that helped these groups recruit from an increasingly indignant public. Danner’s analysis of the insurgency forecasted how it evolved into what we know today as the Islamic State, over a decade before it happened. VICE News sat down with Danner to discuss how the United States invasion of Iraq and the ensuing war provided what he described as a warm petri dish in which insurgent elements would grow. Read “’The Threat Is Real’: The Islamic State Is Trying to Influence Political Parties in Malaysia” – http://bit.ly/1yvc1Ou Watch “China Strikes Back: Talking Heads” – http://bit.ly/1HRU7e6 Watch “Escape to the Islamic State” – http://bit.ly/1rNVpwy Check out the VICE News beta for more: http://vicenews.com Follow VICE News here: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/vicenews Twitter: https://twitter.com/vicenews Tumblr: http://vicenews.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/vicenews
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