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Recent Writing by George Packer on Iraq

George Packer, author of the third of our course texts this semester, writes about how Iraq looks today.  He quotes an Iraqi refugee named Firas: ”

“’I can never blame the Americans alone,’ an Iraqi refugee named Firas told me in early 2007. ‘It’s the Iraqis who destroyed their country, with the help of the Americans, under the American eye.’ To gain this wisdom, Firas had to lose almost everything. What would it take for Americans to understand what Firas already does? A recognition that Iraq was everyone’s loss, whichever side you were on.”

George Packer, “Over Here: Iraq the Place vs. Iraq the Abstraction,” World Affairs, Winter, 2008

More on Iraq:  Packer study guide ; Benchmarks in the History of Iraq

Posted by Ted Thornton on Tuesday, February 19, 2008, at 7:09 am. Filed under Assignments, Iraq. Follow any responses to this post with its comments RSS feed. You can post a comment or trackback from your blog.

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