TY - BOOK AU - RAYBURN Joel TI - The last exit from Iraq: how the British quit Mesopotamia PY - 2006/// KW - IRAQ WAR KW - UNITED STATES KW - FOREIGN POLICY KW - IRAQ KW - BRITAIN KW - MESOPOTAMIA N2 - Recommends American policy makers should study Britain's experience in the 1920s of trying to establish a working state in Iraq, and the dire consequences of pulling out before the job was complete because of pressure from Parliament and the British press. Notes similarities with the situation facing the United States at the present time ER -