Dahr Jamail returns to Iraq

I’m sitting here in Beirut sifting a zillion things in my mind… One is regret that I haven’t mustered the courage to do what I had hoped to do while I’ve been here, which was to go to Iraq… braving a certain degree of risk, it is true… and doing some firsthand reporting from there.
In the end the degree of risk looked just too great. Or, am I getting old and flabby? Did I lose my nerve? Well, I’m sure you don’t want to hear me maundering on about my personal woes.
Anyway, I have good news for you. Dahr Jamail, a good reporter who looks from his pic to be 25 years younger than me, has just taken the plunge and gone back to Iraq. So now, the rest of us can all live out my earlier, fear-quashed hopes vicariously, through Dahr.
Here is an excerpt from the first post he put on his blog after getting back there, Friday:

    … we go visit some friends of ours

8 thoughts on “Dahr Jamail returns to Iraq”

  2. thank your mr dahr jamail for his journey so that we can read somewhere, certainly not in the mainstream press, about the realities of iraq.
    what a needless tragedy to bomb so relentlessly the cradle of civilization for a lie.
    will america ever return?

  3. Helena, there was never any chance at all of the raze of Falluja being averted, just as there was never any chance at all of averting the invasion of Iraq or any of its sequelae.
    I can no longer watch or listen to the news. I just cannot take it, but that doesn’t stop me from knowing what is going on there, and it does not help to lessen, let alone remove, the constant, ever-tightening knot in my belly.
    Iraq has never seen horrors, death, destruction, desecration and utter devastation like this since the Mongol invasion. In fact, this, and what is to come may be much, much worse than anything the Mongols ever could have done.
    Iraq is finished.

  5. Iraqi bloggers like Dahr Jamail and others describe the all too familiar landscape I saw in Vietnam. Having a war waged in your neighborhood sucks and creates a warped normality necessary to survive amid the chaos. This is why armed combat should always be absolutely necessary, with no other real choice. I call it unleashing the beast; even necessary war takes unexpected, horrible turns. Having witnessed the grim results of American military action around the world, I am profoundly disappointed to see us doing it again.

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