God's Not Watching Baghdad
It's September. Four and a half years in, the author, a former infantryman, went back to Iraq to profile the president's surge. Here's what he found...
By Brian Mockenhaupt {for more from this author}
8/29/2007
Brian Mockenhaupt
Watching soldiers on a mission can be poignant. Watching soldiers on a mission spiraling toward failure is devastating. Outside a house in western Baghdad's once-upscale Ghazaliya neighborhood, next to a broken Iraqi Humvee, I enjoyed this rare bit of clarity, and in a moment I saw why Iraq is such a mess. It's not the obvious choices -- sectarian hatred or Al Qaeda or meddling by Iraq's neighbors -- but something much more pedestrian, exceptionally mundane: flat tires.
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