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is it possible to dip your toe into iraq and not be pulled into deeper into the conflict? to understand what is happening in iraq today, it s worth looking back to december 18th 2011 when quts the norkz times ran this headline, last convey leaves iraq ending a war s end. a war s end. it didn t run that headline on a one or two or three. it ran on a six and it included this amazing detail. as an indication of the country the u.s. is leaving behind, for security reasons the last soldiers may no time for good-byes for iraqis who they became acquainted. the photo is beautiful and feels final. it s a lone american soldier walking across a sand swept landscape. but that wasn t final. it wasn t the end. the very next morning, iraq is back in new york times, front page. arrest lewarrant for sunni leader iraq s prime minister nuri al maliki, a figure america lifted to power because he seemed the best among a set of very bad options. he arrested the country s vice preside ....