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Nir Rosen

Nir Rosen, a freelance journalist, is author of Aftermath: Following the Bloodshed of America's Wars in the Muslim World.

Articles

On one of those early days of the war, Mu’min and his father drove to the airport to take food to his uncle, a soldier in the Republican Guard. They found him shot to death.

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What changed in Iraq.

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The Iraq War spreads.

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Little relief in sight for millions of displaced Iraqis.

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Iraq's descent into chaos.

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The roots of sectarian violence.
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Forums

Counterinsurgency doesn’t make sense. It asks soldiers, concerned primarily with survival, to be Wyatt Earp and Mother Theresa.

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Forum Responses

I am grateful for the responses to my article. Helena Cobban and I are both doubtful about the chances that Obama’s counterinsurgency policy will succeed. While she thinks “domestic politics” account for...
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America lost Iraq as soon as it won the war. A pervasive sense of lawlessness set in immediately following the fall of Saddam’s regime from which neither Iraq nor the Americans ever...
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