Invasions are experienced as surreal and disorienting by the soldiers carrying them out

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As soon as he crossed, he saw the oil wells burning, the dark sky punctuated with huge fireballs circling psychedelic orange around them. I guess I really am in hell now, he thought. His nerves were getting to him as he was driving. Behind him in the backseat was an older marine, a twenty-year veteran who was videotaping the whole episode like a home movie of his beach vacation. Sami, meanwhile, had a hard time concentrating. — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 232