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Their Fight…But Our Legacy: The New Battle for Fallujah

Once More

Once again Fallujah is ground zero for a terrible fight over Iraq’s future. The State Department’s former man on the ground, John Kael Weston, remembers the last time battle raged in the streets and what we can do now—for our friends and former collaborators.

Once again, another impending “battle for Fallujah”—but this one without U.S. troops fighting in its deadly streets. More masked gunman, more burned buildings, more bad headlines, including English Pravda’s: “Falluja, Symbol of Iraq’s Unending Tragedy.”

Not propaganda in this case.

On New Year’s Day, I received an email from a close Iraqi...

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