I hope I don't sound like a "deer in the headlights" liberal, but in an age of instant communication, wouldn't it be somehow possible for individual Americans to establish personal relationships with individual Iraqis and in so doing magnify the good-will efforts of our troops? Wouldn't such an effort go a long way to assure the Iraqis that we are not there to dominate? I hope someone out there has the knowledge, position, and desire to make such an effort possible.
2007-01-28 05:20:49 · 4 answers · asked by saddlesore 3 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
I am not talking about traveling there, I mean via internet, telephone, mail, etc.
2007-01-28 05:53:40 · update #1
I don't think your average iraqi has the technology to make that possible.
2007-01-28 05:31:09 · answer #1 · answered by ally_oop_64 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No!!!
Try and UNDERSTAND what the conflict in Iraq IS first.
The Iraqi's are fighting EACH other for POWER. They don't care what Americans think!!!
Insurgents have KNOWINGLY killed non-combatant foreigners who were there on humanitarian grounds.
2007-01-28 13:32:06 · answer #2 · answered by rostov 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you mean going to Iraq, that's not a good idea.
Several people have tried that in Palestine and were murdered by the Israeli Terrorist Force, the ITF, or attempted murder in the case of Brian Avery.
Rachel Corrie:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Corrie
http://www.rachelcorrie.org/
James Miller:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Miller_%28filmmaker%29
http://www.justice4jamesmiller.info/
Tom Hurndall:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Hurndall
http://www.tomhurndall.co.uk/
Brian Avery:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Avery
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/02/25/1455249
http://electronicintifada.net/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/11/3646
If you went to Iraq, you could expect to be targeted for murder by US terrorists, much the same as reporters who refused to be "embedded" and censored by the US government.
http://www.brown.edu/Students/INDY/archives/2005-03-10/articles/news-zevin_iraq-reporters.htm
http://www.fair.org/press-releases/iraq-journalists.html
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/mar2004/iraq-m22.shtml
http://www.cpj.org/attacks03/mideast03/iraq.html
http://www.nysun.com/article/8866
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2007-01-28 13:45:41 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
why do you think bush is losing on all fronts.
2007-01-28 21:06:52 · answer #4 · answered by thevillageidiotxxxxx 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋