Reply #50: yeah, that's the true cost [View All]

The embitterment in Iraq. I doubt Iran gets affected to a degree anywhere like it. I guess I hope that the next Administration or two gets Iraq some genuine reparations and rebuilding and partnership in the region and the world.

Just don't forget that this part of the world is pretty highly populated, perhaps overpopulated, and population pressures have a lot to do with there being a major bloodbath once or twice a generation in what is now Iraq for at least a century. They can move on in a hurry once the immediate causes are settled. Myself, I was shocked at the rate things seemed to go forward in I/P after the Oslo accords were signed. The extremists and reactionary older people on both sides had to do a lot of killing and conflict generating to force a reraising of the barriers between the two sides.