{"id":6987,"date":"2013-11-04T03:14:05","date_gmt":"2013-11-04T08:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.journals.law.harvard.edu\/ilj\/?p=6987"},"modified":"2013-11-04T03:14:05","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T08:14:05","slug":"to-be-a-friend-is-fatal-the-fight-to-save-the-iraqis-america-left-behind-1112-12pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/ilj\/2013\/11\/to-be-a-friend-is-fatal-the-fight-to-save-the-iraqis-america-left-behind-1112-12pm\/","title":{"rendered":"To Be a Friend Is Fatal: The Fight to Save the Iraqis America Left Behind (11\/12, 12pm)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>To Be a Friend Is Fatal: The Fight to Save the Iraqis America Left Behind<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Lunch Talk with Kirk Johnson, founder of the List Project to Resettle Iraqi Allies<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>When:\u00a0Tuesday, November 12, 12-1:30pm<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Where: WCC 3036 &#8211; HLS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tens of thousands of Iraqis and Afghans stepped forward to assist U.S. soldiers, diplomats, and aid workers over the past decade of war, acting as interpreters, engineers, and advisors to America&#8217;s reconstruction efforts. As the U.S. development program foundered and counter-insurgency tactics alienated the Iraqi and Afghan public, though, they were increasingly viewed as traitors to their country. Despite their immense value to America&#8217;s interests, as soon as they began to petition the U.S. government for refuge, Iraqis were met by a bureaucracy that viewed them as potential terrorists. With the war in Iraq a distant memory and the withdrawal from Afghanistan gathering speed, the Iraqis and Afghans are now tarred with a stigma that is both lethal and generational. Kirk Johnson, author of\u00a0<em>To Be a Friend is Fatal<\/em>\u00a0and founder of the List Project, will discuss the efforts of the List Project to confront both Republican and Democratic resistance in Washington, the state of humanitarianism in an America-in-withdrawal, and a brief history of bureaucratic abandonment in past wars.<\/p>\n<p>Kirk W. Johnson is the founder of the List Project to Resettle Iraqi Allies, and the author of\u00a0<em>To Be a Friend Is Fatal: the Fight to Save the Iraqis America Left Behind<\/em>. \u00a0His writing has appeared in the\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em>, the\u00a0<em>Washington Post<\/em>, the\u00a0<em>Los Angeles Times<\/em>,<em>Foreign Policy<\/em>, and his work has been profiled by\u00a0<em>This American Life<\/em>,\u00a0<em>60 Minutes<\/em>, and the\u00a0<em>New Yorker<\/em>. \u00a0Since 2007, the List Project has brought nearly 2,000 U.S.-affiliated Iraqis to safety in America, constituting the largest pro bono initiative on behalf of refugees in U.S. history. \u00a0Prior to the List Project, Johnson served in Iraq with the U.S. Agency for International Development in Fallujah as the Agency\u2019s first coordinator for reconstruction in the war-torn city. \u00a0He has received fellowships from the American Academy in Berlin, Yaddo, MacDowell, and the Wurlitzer Foundation. \u00a0Prior to his work in Iraq, he conducted research on political Islamism as a Fulbright Scholar in Egypt. \u00a0Johnson received his BA from the University of Chicago in 2002.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To Be a Friend Is Fatal: The Fight to Save the Iraqis America Left Behind Lunch Talk with Kirk Johnson, 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