An inglorious end

This is the inglorious end to a war that has been lost in every way, writes the liberal daily La Stampa commenting on the withdrawal of US combat troops from Iraq: "It began like Star Wars and is ending with this quiet withdrawal. ... Between the heroic beginning and the silent end lies an era of decline in US history. ... Iraq marks the end of the innocence of a great nation without the alibi of a great battle, of a grand ideological passion like that which drove the war in Vietnam. ... The mediocre war of a mediocre US presidency, the only symbol of which remains the image of a naked man being tortured with electric cables - but with a face covered by a hood. A sign that not even the enemy is recognisable any longer, even if you torture him."

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