Since leaving the military, I’ve searched my soul for answers.
Was there one? How would we know when it was over? It weighed on us for a few seconds until we snapped out of it and started eating our California rolls. “Aside from knowing we had cleared Ramadi,” he said, “I don’t think I ever heard what success in Iraq consisted of.”Īs two former military officers who have written books about their time in Iraq, neither of us could articulate what a successful completion of the mission would look like. A rainbow hovers over the Victory Arch in Baghdad, which was created for Saddam Hussein after the Iran-Iraq War.
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