Iraq war will haunt west - Emma Sky

[davidbfpo]

A new article by Emma Sky, id'd by a "lurker" and her penultimate paragraph is:

Despite its faults, the Army does at least try to learn and improve, to understand the utility of force and its own limitations. I think of Odierno and Ciotola: friendships formed on the battlefield through sweat and tears, and loss and loss and loss, in an effort to give Iraqis the hope of a better future—the only purpose that made any sense as to why we were there.

Despite its faults, the Army does at least try to learn and improve, to understand the utility of force and its own limitations. I think of Odierno and Ciotola: friendships formed on the battlefield through sweat and tears, and loss and loss and loss, in an effort to give Iraqis the hope of a better future—the only purpose that made any sense as to why we were there. - See more at: http://www.armymagazine.org/2015/10/....4tNGf7Pz.dpuf

Link:http://www.armymagazine.org/2015/10/...an-move-ahead/

[AdamG]

More suited to this Iraq thread than the other Iraq thread.

Five other service members have been “wounded in action” since the U.S. first sent troops back into Iraq last year, according to statistics from the Pentagon and interviews with officials in Iraq (PDF). But how and when they were injured, the Pentagon refuses to say.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...DB&via=FB_Page