As one former Iraqi general put it: “The American soldiers are very disciplined. They fight like robots and engage and kill everything on the battlefield.” Well, not quite everything—with a very few very sick exceptions, the U.S. troops confined their work to armed opponents. There was no shortage of those around Balad, Iraq, in January of 2004. As for the tough Americans, they were spread pretty thin, and it didn’t seem like they’d stay long, maybe a few months or a few years. Fouzi Younis wasn’t going anywhere.
