Foreign policy hell

What do you do if you can't work and can't go to school, if you have left behind your country, your community, and your career, to say nothing of your dead? Sadly, the answer is: almost nothing. Life as an Iraqi refugee is one of emptiness bordering on erasure."Sometimes I wonder if I would have been better off if I'd died in Iraq," Fata told me. "And sometimes I think I did."

The always interesting Foreign Policy mgazine has published this article about the seemlingly endless war the the Iraqi's have experienced and how the humanitarian crisis (to use a well-worn cliche, which is in itself a well-worn cliche) that 2 million of them face as refugees just drags on, one wonders who thinks this war was worth it? If you include the deprivations of the economoic sanctions imposed since the first 'gulf war' it must be close to an entire generation that has suffered. Its hard to concive of over here, I can't neatly conclude this post, like there is no conclusion for the people interviewed in the article but Britain is currently having an enquiry into why they went to war, unfortunately Australia is unlikely to do so, not enough of us have died.
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See also High Value Detainee #1