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Writing in The New Yorker, George Packer says "the inadequacy of the surge is already clear, if one honestly assesses the daily lives of Iraqis. The militias, which have become less conspicuous as they wait out the surge, are nevertheless growing in strength, as they extend their control over neighborhoods like Ahmed's. In the backstreets, the local markets, the university classrooms, and other realms beyond the reach of American observers or American troops, there is no rule of law, only the rule of the gun."

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