Soldiers Report on Iraq.
The War as We Saw It
This is one of the best articles I have read in a while: coherent, well-thought out, and very well informed. This really captures the war for me:
"Four years into our occupation, we have failed on every promise, while we have substituted Baath Party tyranny with a tyranny of Islamist, militia and criminal violence...In the end, we need to recognize that our presence may have released Iraqis from the grip of a tyrant, but that it has also robbed them of their self-respect. They will soon realize that the best way to regain dignity is to call us what we are — an army of occupation — and force our withdrawal."
And this as well:
"This suggestion [partial withdrawal] is not meant to be defeatist, but rather to highlight our pursuit of incompatible policies to absurd ends without recognizing the incongruities."
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