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Should We Give Up on the Iraqi Army?

Can’t Fix This

The U.S. is training a national army for a nation that does not exist.

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Sgt. Shawn Miller/US Army

The Iraqi Army and Shiite militias have now launched an operation to retake Tikrit, a Sunni city 95 miles north of Baghdad that was Saddam Hussein’s hometown.

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