Tell me how it ends book review5/31/2023 ![]() But then the story moves on, pursuing the dominant theme, which in itself is an unsettling factor, i.e., General Petraeus somehow understood that we needed to go through this to achieve our end General Petraeus is an epic individual cast in the mold of our greatest general-leaders. In one case two soldiers were incinerated in a Bradley fighting vehicle their remains, we are told, had to be scraped out of it. The author's hard and dangerous labor excavating this material is undermined, however, by two factors: first, she often recounts horrific injuries and deaths without pausing to appraise the meaning of those sacrifices for the individual in question, the family, etc. We need to confront this kind of reporting, and reality. The importance of this book for me lay in its descriptions of the horrors of the surge in Baghdad. ![]()
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