Book Burning in Baghdad

But, then, how do you defend a country's history when it's not your own, when you don't understand it, when you don't speak their language, when they don't want you there? How do you protect a people's sense of who they are when you are a stranger in their house pulling them from their beds in the small hours of the morning?

That's a problem that few occupiers have ever learned to address, but it's one we're going to have to think about for many years to come.

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