To the Editor : In '' New Orleans and Baghdad '' -LRB- column , Sept. 9 -RRB- , Thomas L. Friedman quotes an analogy from the author Michael Mandelbaum : '' The U.S. military presence in Iraq today is like the dikes and levees that were protecting New Orleans from the flood .
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