How long does it take? Long. Is it worth it? Yes. Then again, I'm a partisan like everybody else, and I guess it doesn't mean so much when I say 'toldja so'. So I defer to Michael J Totten. You really need to read this.
“You know what I like most about this place?” he said.
“What’s that?” I said.
“We don’t need to wear body armor or helmets,” he said.
I was poleaxed. Without even realizing it, I had taken off my body armor and helmet. I took my gear off as casually as I do when I take it off after returning to the safety of the base after patrolling. We were not in the safety of the base and the wire. We were safe because we were in Ramadi.
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