I Want YOU to Read This Post!

            There is an article by the New York Times, Many Iraqis Have Second Thoughts as U.S. Exit Nears written by Michael S. Schmidt, published September 10th 2011, which I found really interesting and insightful. The news story is very moving to me because I have a lot of friends that live in Baghdad. They tell me of all the good that has been happening up until about four months ago. A friend of mine told me that one command is planning to destroy hundreds of homes and displace thousands of people to build a no man’s land to surround the Americans last base from attacks.
            The article highlights problems facing Iraqis, mainly that there is still no trust in the local Government infrastructures due to the fear of a corrupt leadership and the strong differences in the religious views of the political majority versus the minority. At first Iraqi citizens didn’t want American there, now they feel that the American troop withdrawal of Iraq would destroy an already fractured nation. It’s a non-biased look into the Iraqi citizen’s point of view and I feel that Americans will have a big decision to make soon in regards to this current issue.