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Even a decades-long military deployment can end: U.S. withdrawal from Iraq is complete

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The U.S. military has completed its withdrawal from Iraq, NPR reports, 23 years after President George W. Bush’s campaign of “shock and awe.” This is a completed departure, rather than a proposed timetable, though it does not establish that Iraq’s security problems are resolved.

The completed withdrawal shows that a prolonged foreign military deployment need not become permanent, without establishing what comes next for Iraq.

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