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November 12, 2007
Things Are 'as Normal as Possible' at the U. of Baghdad
Most universities would not consider it a good year when two professors and two students had been killed in the past two months. But good is a relative term in Iraq.
This fall, the University of Baghdad “is about as normal as possible, given the circumstances,” a lecturer there told Agence France-Presse.
About 90 percent of registered students show up for class, up from 50 percent last year, says the university, though it did not note how many students are actually enrolled. And the university has filled many once-vacant faculty posts. (Since 2003, 160 professors at the university have been killed.)
“There is a tangible improvement in the security situation,” said one student. The article notes that while U.S. commanders attribute this to a surge in troops in Baghdad, others say that the city has simply completed its division into Sunni and Shiite neighborhoods and thus ethnic cleansing is less prevalent. —Beth McMurtrie
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Of course ethnic cleansing is less prevalent; it’s been a resounding success! And what does that say about comprehensive peace among Middle Eastern people? They are all so full of hatred of “the other” that they will slaughter their own children for loving the other. They are, in a word, insane. They are not worth our blood, our tears, or our money.
— marci Nov 13, 02:34 PM #
Um… I don’t think it’s been a resounding success by anyone’s standards.
And even if they weren’t worth our blood, sweat and tears, the lives of our children are. And whether we like it or not, whether we were in favor of the war in 2003 or not, pulling out now without insuring that the country is stable, would be a fatal mistake.
Americans need to learn to live with and resolve mistakes, rather than just taking what seems to be the easy way out. No person, national leader or country will ever be perfect or free of mistakes.
— becky Nov 13, 05:02 PM #