Veterans on Iraq War, 10 Years After, Part 3 - NYTimes.com: War’s end found me in another type of swamp — the cable news circuit. I was a young, relatively clean-cut Iraq veteran living in New York, so December 2011 proved a busy time for my one sports coat. “Was it worth it?” they asked. “What did it all mean?” they demanded. I stared at the small red light of the camera and did my best to boil down multitudes of ambiguity into pithy talking points, longing for the clarity of war.