Posted by admin on August 9th, 2010 | Categorized as Iraq | Tagged as Dream, East, Hope, Middle, This
I had a disturbing dream about war, politics, and the result of the 2008 Presidential election the other day. Like many dreams, it was created from a combination of current events like the war in Iraq and the 2008 Presidential election mixed with a healthy dose of United States foreign policy insecurity.
It is interesting how the mind takes this combination of thoughts and creates a narrative and formulates a story. Let me share the dream with you, with the prospect that it will remain just a bad dream. Hopefully the next President of the United States will be very successful and the end of the war in Iraq will ensure a lasting peace in the Middle East.
In the dream, the front page of the New York Times, on this warm late August morning of 2009, is full of murky Middle East headlines. It is very… Read the rest entry…
Posted by admin on August 6th, 2010 | Categorized as Iraq | Tagged as About, Elections, Iraqi, Radical, Thoughts
When I participated in the parliamentary out-of-country Iraqi elections that took place between March 5-7, to vote for an Iraqi candidate who would hopefully put an end to the violence in Iraq and thus, ease the pain and suffering of the Iraqis and make the environment safer for our troops in Iraq, I was not aware of the vicious “American” thoughts that surrounded our voting site in Warren, Michigan. Thank God that police were patrolling the area! I learned of my neighbors’ contemporary views towards Middle Easterners while doing research online. My intention, as a journalist, was to write a piece about the terrorist acts that Iraqis faced in Iraq during the elections. That’s when I discovered the radical thoughts that exist in my own backyard. Here are some of the comments people posted for an article published by the Macomb Daily about the out-of-country voting and the counting… Read the rest entry…
Posted by admin on August 3rd, 2010 | Categorized as Iraq | Tagged as Always, Bullet, Negotiations, Silver
I suspect that many of those who are opposed to the tactical changes in Iraq explained by the president in his speech to the nation on Jan. 10 and reinforced in his State of Union speech this past week do not believe that Iraq is a major front in a wider war.
They don’t accept that we are at war with Islamic fascists. When these people use “war” and “terror” in the same sentence, they don’t mean military war. They mean rhetorical war as in “war on drugs” or “war on organized crime.” Sen. John Kerry stated this position clearly in his campaign for the presidency, “The war on terror is … occasionally military … But it’s primarily an intelligence and law enforcement operation …” To these people, bringing the troops home from Iraq means that the war is over.
Here is the argument: To view terrorism as war… Read the rest entry…
Posted by admin on July 31st, 2010 | Categorized as Iraq | Tagged as Abrasion, East, Middle, Power
“IS ANY ONE paying notice to me?? Or should I…”
Sounds like, as if the ‘Foremost’ is being discounted by the ‘Feeble’. And the former is threatening the latter with grim penalty.
The above situation is quite similar to the Mid-east conflict. It seems the “Foremost”, the United States, is all lost and lone in the region. A decade ago, the directive of US sprinted across the region. At present, the state of affairs is quite unlike. Monarchs, nation-states in the region are doing the things in their own way. Militant organizations have their own say.
The following cases would corroborate the US’ catch 22 situation in Mid-east. Both Syria and Iran are taking US for granted. Palestine and Iraq, which were once fused by Yasser Arafat and Saddam Hussein are now in the grip of civil unrest. The people of Lebanon were recurring back to normal life… Read the rest entry…
Posted by admin on July 28th, 2010 | Categorized as Iraq | Tagged as Enslaved, Freedom, Iraqi, Operation, Women
My twenty-year-old cousin Renda is currently a student at Mustansiriyah University in Baghdad, Iraq. Established in 1227, Mustansiriyah is one of the oldest university in the world. Extremists have targeted this university since the 2003 U.S. and British-led invasion, the most brutal act having taken place on January 16, 2007 when a double bomb attack killed sixty five people, mostly female students, and wounded 138. Though these incidents did not deter Renda from attending classes, they have had a negative impact on the majority of the country’s students. According to a joint Ministry of Interior (MoE) and UNICEF study, 800,000 Iraqi children, 74 percent of which are female, do not attend school.
I met Renda five years ago during my visit to Iraq. She loved school, and told me how she envisioned a great future for herself and her family. She had said, “I know life is hard now.… Read the rest entry…
