Memorial Day

Jasmine Singh
To be honest, I really came home this weekend to check upon my mother. I really did not take in consideration that it was Memorial Day weekend. Now when I think about it, I actually feel pretty guilty for not even switching the news stations on the radio or new channel on TV to appreciate the soldiers. I totally forgot about the fact that US was actually in Iraq.
However, I did watch a movie this weekend which says a lot about US’ roles in countries like Afghanistan and Iraq. In “Charlie Wilson’s War, the basic idea is that US goes into a country to help and leave the country without putting helping the nation to rebuilt itself. Since the US doesn’t really put in efforts to rebuild the nation, then that nation is eventually attacked by another powerful nation. The movie focused on the time when the USSR was attacking Afghanistan and the US supplied over one billion dollars worth of weapons and supplies for Afghanistan to defeat the USSR. However in the end of the movie, the Congress does not approve of the one million dollars that would go toward reconstruction of schools for the Afghan children. To be honest, I feel that it will be the same towards Iraq, in the sense that the US will not make an effort to reconstruct the nation. All the US wants his pride, that it was able to kill Saddam Hussein and eventually capture Osama Bin Laden. I don’t think the President cares about the soldiers and innocent lives that are being killed or tortures in Iraq.