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Aftermath d.c. quartet series on whether we live inNir Rosen's Aftermath, an extraordinary feat of reporting, follows the contagious spread of radicalism and sectarian violence that the U. S. invasion of Iraq and the ensuing civil war have unleashed in the Muslim world. Rosen who the Weekly Standard once bitterly complained has "great access to the Baathists and jihadists who make up the Iraqi insurgency" has spent nearly a decade among warriors and militants who have been challenging American power