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...area around the Palace—four square miles surrounded by high cement walls on the banks of the Tigris River—soon became known as the Green Zone. Today, the Green Zone houses Iraq’s new U.S. Embassy, which cost $600 million and is roughly the size of Vatican City...
...From crowding in the Palace basement during rocket attacks to watching Iraqis draft their constitution, Senor and two other Harvard graduates described life inside the Green Zone as alternating between deep frustrations and exhilarating highs. Their stories paint a picture of a post-invasion Iraq shackled by poor planning and missteps in Washington but struggling, they said, toward a distant yet bright future...
...Senor described a pressure-cooker environment as Coalition officials worked around the clock to compensate for the time difference between the Green Zone and the White House...
...exchange for whatever aid they receive, the students must pledge to serve three or four years in the armed forces after graduation. While not every officer ends up in Iraq or Afghanistan, deployment to a war zone is, at present always a possibility...
...doubt that the leaders of the main political groups understand this necessity for a coalition perfectly well. The trouble is that have they no reason to strive hard to implement such an arrangement right now, as they are unable to control their followers outside Baghdad’s 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...