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What We Learned From the Surge

The most dispiriting lesson of the surge is that on the crucial political front, Washington is not coping much better than Baghdad.

by Jonathan Rauch
Saturday, April 19, 2008


Dear Michael: Five years have passed since you died in Iraq. The war has now gone on longer than any but two full-scale American military conflicts: the Revolutionary War and the war in Vietnam. More than 4,000 U.S. troops have been ...


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