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The Current Violence in Iraq: Getting Worse |
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Monday, 11 September 2006 |
When I first started the adventure of The Hanoudi Letter blog, I have made it very clear on many occasions that I been extremely worried that I might not be able to write something which is worth the time and a effort of those to whom it was directed to. An intelligent average individual and an American in particular, for these reason I have been and from the start asking the visitors to my blog to help me improve its substance and its quality by their rational criticism and intelligent corrections. Unfortunately, it is becoming increasingly evident that my requests have fallen on deaf ears. Because during the almost two years of existence of this blog I have received only a handful of comments, the world's citizenry and especially the Americans are becoming totally hypnotized and brainwashed by the lies and deceptions of the international media who are constantly bombarding their viewers, readers and listeners with a non-stopping barrage of falsehoods and dis-information. This a very sad state of affairs, because in this environment of cheap propaganda and sensationalism those who are writing from first hand experience directly from the field those who are living the hourly threats to their lives and existence under very severe deprivations and lack of the basic essentials like we are in Iraq now are becoming irrelevant and neglected.
On the seventeenth of last August 2006, I updated the website with a piece on violence, its basic aspects including its psychology and its cultural dimensions with a special emphasis on the current violence in Iraq. At that time I confessed that the subject is an extremely complex and impossible to cover in single short narrative like this one, I also asked at that time for people’s views and comments on the problem of violence to try and improve the quality of my essay for a very simple reason, the current violence in Iraq in nowadays an even more acute and a much harder topic to talk about because of the religions, ethnic and geopolitical dimensions which are added to it. From the very beginning I thought that it was bound to be incomplete and would need to be tackled again to add to what I have already talked about to enrich the article and improve its qualities and this time I was a bit luckier than previously because few weeks later I received a very nice letter from a young American who has been working in Iraq on two occasions for a total of two years who in his letter to me made very intelligent and objective comments which were so interesting that I used them as an update to the blog which has appeared lately on the blog and is still there. This one letter engendered a very good response from a good number of people from Australia, Canada Japan and the US to whom I would like to apologize for not answering their kind letters yet.
I have promised in the beginning that I would be following my first piece on the violence in Iraq with another one to try and complete the essay I have been working on, but the violence in Iraq is actually getting much worse in spite of some greatly publicized attempts by the Americans to curb this tragic wave of destruction and murder. They Americans seem to have forgotten the lessons from some of their own recent experiences in such conflicts, a very good American friend said sometime ago our experience in Vietnam has been a sore spot in the American consciousness. Americans want to be the good guys and it was not at all clear in that action that we were or that we even supported the good guys. The violence in Iraq has reached at the present time such level which is making it an impossible essay to finish. I am trying with this update to say my last word on the subject or at least the one before the last and for this reason I’m going to add to these written words a photograph of a sixteen years old boy who was playing outside his own house in one of Baghdad’s suburbs two months ago when a car bomb exploded near by his playground and left him in spite of staying for six week in one of the biggest hospitals in Baghdad’s with what you are going to see in the picture.
I saw him in my own clinic recently and I’m desperately in need of help and advice as regards the management and follow up of his case.
I'm sorry to have to burden my loving and very kind blog's visitors to this humble site. I'm especially sorry that this is coinciding with the 5th anniversary of the 9/11 atrocity a real and a truly painful tragedy which I very strongly believe that America and its kind, caring and friendly people did not deserve. This is our world and these are our times cruel and agonizing. Let us hope that all those people who are suffering from this epidemic of violence which has made their lives so terrible and miserable. Man was made by God and in his own image, cursed is those who are destroying his creation.
Najeeb Hanoudi
Saturday, September 09, 2006
Baghdad/Iraq
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