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… but no cigar.

You don’t like to see this in the New York Times. From an otherwise excellent article on the definition of “civil war” and who gets to say whether there is one in Iraq:

Large swaths of Iraq have little violence, but those areas are relatively homogenous and have few people. [emphasis and link added]

Oh, for the editorial standards of yesteryear.

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