New post today from the Girl Blog from Iraq: http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/
She says:
"You know your country is in trouble when:
* The UN has to open a special branch just to keep track of the chaos and bloodshed, UNAMI, but abovementioned branch cannot be run from your country.
* The only thing the US and Iran can agree about is the deteriorating state of your nation.
* For every 5 hours of no electricity, you get one hour of public electricity - and then the government announces it's going to cut back on providing that hour.
* People consider themselves lucky if they can actually identify the corpse of the relative that's been missing for two weeks."
Scary.
One thing we - who don't have a war within our own borders - tend not to think about so much is the culture of fear that takes over during war. She says, "There is no compensation for the dense, black cloud of fear that hangs over the head of every Iraqi." We have to admit there is no parallel in America. Our unsafe neighborhoods are heaven compared with most of Iraq. We have no clue...
Check out the website for her full post. The least we can do is pay attention.
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