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.
pennilayne said,
October 24, 2007 at 6:48 pm
I’m a peace activist and I’m right there with you. This war on “terrorism” is no more than a planned occupation with intentions toward stolen oil and more control.
How would Americans react to an unwelcomed occupation of our home? How would we react to invasions into our homes and unexplained arrests of loved ones? Would we so quickly welcome gunfire and death into our streets in the name of supposed “democracy”?
Back to the point, however, a woman’s reality can often times be challenging in the every day sense. Imagine for a moment, then, the day of a woman whose life is not only dictated for merely being born a female but now her country for happening to stand upon a land rich in oil….
Kudos.
Laura Knudson said,
December 7, 2007 at 9:40 pm
I agree wholeheartedly. We are in this for all the wrong reasons, and the sooner we are out, the better.