American Views Abroad

 
'That's what I'm experiencing --- a national schizophrenia that results from our government carrying out an unpopular war. It's what I continue to experience with never lessening sharpness two years after my last trip to Iraq. The hardest thing, in the California sun with that cool breeze on my face, is to know that two realities in two grimly linked countries coexist, and most people in my own country are barely conscious of this. In Iraq, of course, there is nothing disparate, no disjuncture, only a constant, relentless grinding and suffering, a pervasive condition of tragic hopelessness and despair with no end in sight.'

Dahr Jamail, Iraq Reporter, Schizophrenic in Disneyland at www.tomdispatch.com/post/174819/dahr_jamail_iraq_reporter_schizophrenic_in_disneyland
- posted by Gloria @ 10:43 AM