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...Wars are these extended periods of nothingness punctuated by periods of chaos,” said Lt. Col. Darry C. Johnson, a 27-year army veteran who is now a national security fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School. “The tension is palpable, the danger is palpable…You’re very much on edge—it’s very difficult to relax...
...These include the Kurds, now safe and relatively secure in their largely autonomous and well-protected enclave in the northeast. They also include some Shiites who gained freedom from persecution and opportunities to advance their interests after the invasion—benefits that may still seem to outweigh the danger and destruction going on all around them. Think of those, for example, who were able to take advantage of the recent American disarmament of Sunni fighters in Baghdad to seize Sunni homes, thus turning Baghdad into an almost exclusively Shiite city. And then of course there are the heads...
...very physical presence in Iraq presents a danger to those around him—as he gets to know his Iraqi bodyguards and their families, he worries about the constant threat he poses to them...
...Critics argue that while reporters may place themselves in less danger when they embed, they sacrifice a level of objectivity that is necessary to fairly represent the conditions on the ground...
...coping with the danger My main experiences walking around here is you act like you're in an episode of The Sopranos, that's sometimes how the rules are here. And if you imagine yourself in that [scenario], it becomes a lot easier to understand how things work here ... You know it's dangerous here, but you kind of take a dark sense of humor toward it, and just try to laugh off some things...