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Nir Rosen, a freelance journalist, is author of Aftermath: Following the Bloodshed of America's Wars in the Muslim World.
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.
Counterinsurgency doesn’t make sense. It asks soldiers, concerned primarily with survival, to be Wyatt Earp and Mother Theresa.
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