Iraq, beyond generals

After teaching sociology for 50 years, I never expected that my discipline will be called upon to step in where generals are failing. I was hence delighted to read David Brooks, in his New York Times op-ed, observe that "now, at long last, the smartest analysts and policy makers are starting to think like sociologists." Better yet, Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE), the head of the Foreign Relations Committee, is putting a sociological way out of Iraq up for a vote in the U.S. Senate.