Challenges Remain as U.S. Leaves Two Theaters

It’s over. Or is it? In March 2003, the U.S. and U.K. spearheaded the invasion of Iraq, and when the last American combat troops pulled out in December, more than 4,400 Americans had died, 32,000 had been wounded, and the nation spent $800 billion on the effort.

Tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians, soldiers and police ...