It's now a few years after the US-led invasion of Iraq. One would have expected the country to have calmed down, but daily news shows that it's actually to the contrary. Iraq is perhaps already engaged in a civil war, or at least on the verge of it. Is there any way the violence can be stopped? Should the Western troops remain or leave? In other words: do you think that their presence exacerbates the violence?

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"Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,
but to be young was very heaven!"
William Wordsworth, 1789