Instead the White House has focused our blood and treasure on Afghanistan—Obama’s “central front on the war on terror,” also known as the “Graveyard of Empires” and opium basket of the world.
You’re exactly right.
This is why I worry about the man we know from there. He was one of the students that came here that got very close to my husband and myself. It’s a bad time in Iraq to be in the military and working with the Americans or seeming to sympathize with us.