In Baghdad, Panetta Leads Uneasy Moment of Closure (Published 2011)

BAGHDAD — Almost nine years after the first American tanks began massing on the Iraq border, the Pentagon declared an official end to its mission here, closing a troubled conflict that helped reshape American politics and left a bitter legacy of anti-American sentiment across the Muslim world. As Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta marked the occasion with a speech in a fortified concrete courtyard

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元々、アメリカが世界正義を振りかざしたのでは？という感もあるのだが。