But now on his third deployment in Iraq, he is no longer a believer in the mission. The pivotal moment came, he says, this past February when soldiers killed a man setting a roadside bomb. When they searched the bomber’s body, they found identification showing him to be a sergeant in the Iraqi Army. ~The New York Times

Via Yglesias

Staff Sgt. Safstrom sums up my thoughts pretty well when he asks about Iraq: “What are we doing here? Why are we still here?”