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...Green Zone, where they live, and uncertain regarding the terms and conditions under which the American military will choose to leave. To make matters worse, the presence of American military power makes the job of the central government more difficult still; U.S. military commanders on the ground are busy undermining its power by diverting major resources to local agents like the Awakening Councils in Anbar province. If you are a political leader, better to avoid difficult decisions, rather than take steps that will alienate some part of your anticipated future constituency...
...Then he heard the sound of gunfire. Feldman dropped to the ground...
...elite, educated, and well-connected youth with a social conscience, the impulse is to use the power of education for good. Ian R. Klaus, a graduate student in history at Harvard, arrived with his “feet on the ground, head in the sky” in Iraq in 2005, two years after the U.S. invasion, to teach English literature and American history in the country’s Kurdistan region...
...When he arrived in Iraq, Foote discovered that getting a sense of Iraq’s market was no easier once he was on the ground...
...those crucial first months, Foote said, there was no one on the team who had on-the-ground experience from Eastern Europe or Latin America in transitioning a state-run economy to a free market model...