I recommend this to everyone. It has vastly changed my perception and ideas about our mis-adventure in Iraq.
In the last pages of the book, is an honest quote, which struck me as very important. Packer explains how partisanship and ideologies have rendered the debate over the war in America something that has no connection to the reality of iraq. Each side's view is flawed, both can be accused of using Iraq as a political rather than Iraqi issue.
"The War in Iraq is not an argument to be won or lost, it is a tragedy."
I am now firmly against pulling out of Iraq.
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