New Yorker staff writer George Packer says in some ways, he misses the time he spent embedded with soldiers in Iraq. That may seem strange based on what he wrote in his book "The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq," a chronicle of nearly everything that went wrong following the U.S. invasion in 2003.
Packer explains in a moment why he sometimes wishes he was still in Iraq. But what bothers him most now is what he says is the American public’s dwindling concern about what ultimately happens in Iraq:
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