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Article: From Kosovo To Fallujah; America went to war in--well, over--Kosovo partly to protect Muslims. America's harvest of gratitude has not been bountiful.
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- Newsweek
- Article date:
- April 12, 2004
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Byline: George F. Will
Last week's stomach-turning images from Fallujah--ecstatic children learning from adults the delights of creating and then mutilating corpses--were redundant reminders, but evidently necessary reminders, of how difficult it is going to be to build a democratic, multiethnic Iraq. The images arrived on the fifth anniversary of another ambitious undertaking.
Five years ago the United States was freshly embarked on a war, of sorts. It was a war made possible by modern technology and made attractive to modern sensibilities. It was a war waged by people who thought their aim was worth killing for but not dying for. The aim, President ...