In Your Backyard

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Articles about the war in Iraq are written from a variety of viewpoints ranging from those of American soldiers, Iraqi citizens, news personalities, and all other categories of people. The subjects of the articles I read could not be more different. One article focuses on a mother of an Iraqi soldier, while the other one centers on a citizen of Iraq.

“No mother ever sends an adult into battle,” states Newsweek’s article about the war. The Iraq war affects everyone, but no one is more affected than the family of a soldier. From a family member’s perspective, the cause for the war in Iraq is not worth loosing a loved one. I believe that most people in this country feel that way. According to polls within the last few years, most Americans do not approve of loosing their fellow citizens in this war.

TIME magazine focuses their article around a school-bus driver from Baghdad. This focuses more on the destruction that has taken over Iraq and it’s once beautiful cities. Hearing about the war from an Iraqi’s point of view really makes you realize how tragic the war has been. Americans are sending our families and friends away to go to war, but in Iraq the war is in everyone’s backyard. Just try and grasp how you would feel if this was the case in America.