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In the standoff at Fallujah, U.S. officers recognized that the insurgents, led by former Baathist officers, appeared to have significant popular support in the town. Instead of trying to destroy them, U.S. commanders cut a deal with local Iraqi leaders to put many of the same insurgents in charge of...
The Sunni heartland in the middle of the country remains the biggest concern for U.S. commanders, not least because the escalating danger of working there has slowed reconstruction to a near halt. But in Fallujah, the hotbed of the resistance, U.S. officials point to a recent outbreak of sanity. The...
Kerry's aides insist that the Senator's Iraq reticence is merely an act of patriotic high-mindedness reflecting a desire to show support for the troops and to not "politicize" the issue. Oh, please. There are at least three strategic reasons for saying as little as possible right now...
“It’s about your friends,” he said. “I have a platoon of 35 young men...‘the grunts,’ on the front lines wherever the Marines go.”
Moulton decided to join the Marines in 2001—before the Sept. 11 attacks—after long conversations with Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes.