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To Be a Friend Is Fatal: The Fight to Save the Iraqis America Left Behind The “searing” (The New Yorker), “must read” (The Philadelphia Inquirer) memoir of “one of the few genuine heroes of America’s war in Iraq” (Dexter Filkins). As sectarian violence escalated, Iraqis employed by the US coalition found themselves s

Title	:	To Be a Friend Is Fatal: The Fight to Save the Iraqis America Left Behind
Author	:	Kirk W. Johnson
Rating	:	4.79 (409 Votes)
Asin	:	147671049X
Format Type	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	338 Pages
Publish Date	:	2014-10-07
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The “searing” (The New Yorker), “must read” (The Philadelphia Inquirer) memoir of “one of the few genuine heroes of America’s war in Iraq” (Dexter Filkins).In January 2005 Kirk Johnson, then twenty-four, arrived in Baghdad as USAID’s (US Agency for International Development) only Arabic-speaking American employee. Despite his opposition to the war, Johnson felt called to civic duty and wanted to help rebuild Iraq. Working as the USAID’s first reconstruction coordinator in Fallujah, he traversed the city’s IED-strewn streets, working alongside idealistic Iraqi translators—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 US coalition found themselves subject to a campaign of kidnapping, torture, and assassination.On his first brief vacation, Johnson, swept into wh

Editorial : "Devastating ." the story of "interpreters and aid workers who risked their lives to work with the Americans, only to find themselves left behind as the United States pulled out, their lives in peril in a country that now regards them as despised collaborators." (Michiko Kakutani The New York Times)

"Kirk Johnson is one of the few genuine heroes of America's war in Iraq. Johnson's story is about America's shame, and also its honor. This is an essential book." (Dexter Filkins, Pulitzer Prize-nominee, New Yorker staff writer, and author of The Forever War)

“I have long been an admirer of Kirk Johnson--for his humanitarian advocacy on behalf of forgotten Iraqis and for his honest and poetic writing…. His is a story that arcs from charity to futility to pain to charity again, and how much he needs to tell it equals how much it deserves to be read.” (David Finkel, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of The Good Soldiers)

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