I cannot imagine what it would be like to have to pack up my entire life and move out of my homeland. AND to have to do this with just one suitcase. I can feel the frustration that has turned to anger in her writing. She feels as if she is not being heard and the people in her country Iraq are shouting at the top of their lungs. I dont thinks she views us here in the West as unified with our families as she is. She sees us as disjointed and selfish. We only are out to serve our own needs and we have no regard for their way of life
“Is the American soldier that died today in Anbar more important than a cousin I have who was shot last month on the night of his engagement to a woman he’s wanted to marry for the last six years? I don’t think so” She wants her country back. She wants her home back NOW!
I have long been opposed to this war and I understand how she feels. Politicians make the rules of engagement and others have to die for their ignorance. She no longer sees the American occupation as that she sees it as a takeover. I think we in the West view it as a helping hand, but that hand has now been in the pot too long.
