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Back to Iraq

16 August 2014

9:00 AM

16 August 2014

9:00 AM

It’s twelve years and eleven months since a single graphic image punched us in the guts with such force. Then, with smoke billowing from two New York skyscrapers, themselves symbols of the West’s industrial and economic clout, we realized that our technological supremacy was nothing in the face of determined, medieval, amoral, religious fanaticism.

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