Was it worth the lives of Luke, Steve, and Faith? Did I spend three years of my life fighting a lost cause? Like all wars, the people who plan them and the ones who execute them are in different castes. 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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