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<description><![CDATA[<a class="highslide" href="https://picture.graycity.net/img/kirk-w-johnson/to_be_a_friend_is_fatal.jpg"><img src="https://picture.graycity.net/img/kirk-w-johnson/to_be_a_friend_is_fatal_preview.jpg" class="fr-fic fr-dib" title ="To Be a Friend Is Fatal" alt ="To Be a Friend Is Fatal"/></a><br//>The stunning memoir of "one of the few genuine heroes of America's war in Iraq" (Dexter Filkins), a rare glimpse into the perspective of the Iraqi people, and a searching exploration of America's moral obligations to those Iraqis who stepped forward to help.In January 2005 Kirk Johnson, then twenty-four, arrived in Baghdad as USAID's only American employee who spoke Arabic. Despite his opposition to the war, Johnson felt called to civic duty and wanted to help rebuild Iraq. <br /><br />Appointed as USAID's first reconstruction coordinator in Fallujah, he traversed the city's IED-strewn streets, working alongside idealistic Iraqi translators&#8212;young men and women sick of Saddam, filled with Hollywood slang, and enchanted by the idea of a peaceful, democratic Iraq. It was not to be. As sectarian violence escalated, Iraqis employed by the U.S. coalition found themselves subject to a campaign of kidnapping, torture, and death.<br /><br />On his first brief vacation,...]]></description>
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