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end of war

A resident gestures as he talks to a U.S. soldier from 2nd Brigade combat team, 82nd Airborne on patrol in Baghdad's Adhamiya district January 5, 2008.

How wars end part I: Iraq

Conflict & Justice

In the spring of 2003, for a brief moment, many Americans bought the idea, that the Iraq war was over. But why didn’t the war end with the fall of Baghdad? And why were we programmed to think it might?

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