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For years, he said, the Americans and the Iraqi government had been locked in what he described as a “downward spiral”; as the violence raged, ordinary Iraqis were often too frightened to cooperate with either the Iraqi security officers or American troops.
Exiting Iraq, Petraeus Says Gains Are Fragile - NYTimes.com
The fact that we can use phrases like “for years” as if the war was an old marriage is very depressing.
