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Nir Rosen

Nir Rosen, a freelance journalist, is author of Aftermath: Following the Bloodshed of America's Wars in the Muslim World.

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Forum Response

Something from Nothing — Final Response

The massive investment and destabilization are not worth the small threat al Qaeda poses.

Nir Rosen

War & Security

Iraq's Lost Generation

On one of those early days of the war, Mu’min and his father drove to the airport to take food to his uncle, a soldier in the Republican Guard. They found him shot to death.

Nir Rosen

Forum

Something from Nothing

Counterinsurgency doesn’t make sense. It asks soldiers, concerned primarily with survival, to be Wyatt Earp and Mother Theresa.

Nir Rosen

Politics, War & Security

An Ugly Peace

What changed in Iraq.

Nir Rosen

Global Justice, Politics

Al Qaeda in Lebanon

The Iraq War Spreads.

Nir Rosen

Politics, War & Security

No Going Back

Little relief in sight for millions of displaced Iraqis.

Nir Rosen

War & Security

Anatomy of a Civil War

Iraq's descent into chaos.

Nir Rosen

War & Security

On the Ground in Iraq

The roots of sectarian violence.

Nir Rosen

Forum Response

Exit Strategy — Forum Response

Iraq’s newest torturers have learned from the U.S.

Nir Rosen

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