Talk about complicated feelings right now. Two years I spent in Iraq. I did my part to keep my brothers and sisters there safe, I spent every day hunting down those actively trying to harm them, but above all of that … what actually got accomplished? Complicated, yo.
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After Two Decades, U.S. Forces Leave Iraq to an Uncertain Future (Gift Article)
Some Iraqis are celebrating the end of an American military presence that unleashed waves of bloodshed. Others fear what happens next for their country, trapped between Washington and Tehran.