What Is Iraq?

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Saturday August 23, 2014 · 10:32 AM PDT

2014/08/23 · 10:32

The first rule of holes: When you're in one stop digging. ― Molly Ivins

After 25 year history of killing Iraqis, apparently Americans have learned nothing. Perhaps I should blame the various medias or perhaps Americans have little interest in understanding places that have different cultures.

I know that most Americans believe they are exceptional and everything Americans do is exceptional but let's try to be honest for once. The first thing Americans must be honest about, has all the bombing, the sanctions, the invasion, the occupation and the killing done anything to improve Iraq? By every measurement Iraq is a much worst place to live than 30 years ago. Of course, 30 years ago, Iraq was not a garden of Eden.

If you agree with me that all the efforts of the U.S. government to improve Iraq have failed then the next step is understand why all those terrible things the U.S. did to Iraq did not have a positive results?

Thanks to the U.S., the Iraqi government has been removed and remade several times and now it looks like it is unable to defend its territory. It looks like what Americans used to call a "failed state".

But what if Iraqis do not want to be like Americans? What if they have many different ideas of where they want to go? Most Americans have not the slightest idea of the culture of the people of Iraq. Perhaps if we understood something of their life and traditions then we might understand their problems and even possibly the solutions?

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