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Article: Editorial: IRAQ: Postwar Is Hell.
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- National Review
- Article date:
- July 28, 2003
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Some soldiers are killed in pitched battles, some are murdered in public by brazen assassins. As combat deaths in Iraq have edged over 30 since April, it has become clear that the war did not end there when Saddam Hussein's statue fell.
Wars often outlast their supposed end-points. Grant and Lee met in a burst of magnanimity at Appomattox, but lynching, banditry, and other violence sputtered on for years; one of the casualties was President Lincoln, slain by a Confederate agent. How in the present case does the United States protect its soldiers, its interests, and the future of Iraq?
One great problem is restoring the nation's infrastructure. ...