We couldn’t help but do a double take when we saw this headline on an e-mail late last week: “The Future of Iraq — Canceled.”
Wow. We knew things were precarious over there, but is it really that bad?
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Well, turns out the subject line was in reference to an event by the Henry Jackson Society that was to host Mithal al-Alusi from the Iraqi House of Representatives.
The e-mail went on to explain that “Due to the breakdown of the biometrics machine at the Baghdad embassy, Mr. al-Alusi has been unable to get a visa at this time.”
