On BBC this AM they had a segment about the millions of Iraqi people who have fled to Syria and that Syria is now so full they are going to start constructing camps for the droves of Iraqis flooding into their country. That's the truth and sadness behind war, it's not about ideologies, these people are real people, could you imagine if this happened to you???
2007-09-11 06:44:22 · 5 answers · asked by Ktcyan 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Worse yet, the folks fleeing Iraq are generally the type of people necessary to rebuild Iraq into a functioning society. They are losing their educators, scientists, and middle class. This is a very real and tragic failure of the War.
2007-09-11 06:56:32 · answer #1 · answered by outcrop 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Unfortunately most Americans can't. It seems like the conservatives only want to use them to support their own ideology, and never give the Iraqis much thought or regard. They think of those poor people as mere statistics. That's also a good example of why the BBC is the best news organization in the world. The only American news service that even comes close is NPR. Fox and CNN are pale imitations of the real thing.
2007-09-11 13:56:08 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
It is extremely disheartening to hear about all those people forced to leave their homes. I've even heard that there is basically no Chaldean (Catholic Iraqis) population left, and they numbered in the millions before the US invasion. They were all forced to leave, or killed, for nothing more than their faith.
That's why it's my opinion that we owe it to the Iraqi people to see this conflict out. More and more people say that we need to wash our hands of Iraq, but there is way, way to much blood on those hands for us to leave now. Our invasion destroyed their government, we owe it to them to secure a new government, no matter what it takes. To abandon them now would be morally abhorrent. Sure life under Saddam wasn't pleasant all the time, but most of the people were free to live their lives everyday, so long as they didn't cross him. Now no one is safe there.
2007-09-11 13:58:16 · answer #3 · answered by PoliPino 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I seriously hope it never happens to me or mine. I do think about those people, and sometimes think that we took away more than we've given to them. But until the citizens of Iraq are willing to work together, there's not much any one can do. We can only give them the tools to have a better life, we can't force them to use them.
2007-09-11 13:55:44 · answer #4 · answered by Lisa M 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh those poor terrorists. Yes, lets feel sympathy for them; after all, its not their fault they're harboring terrorists and planning to bomb Israel and kill all the Jews and lesser infidels. Oh, oh, those poor women-hating, stuck-in-the-15th-century people... I think I might cry. (cue the violins)
2007-09-11 13:55:10 · answer #5 · answered by null 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋