My baby sister is a student at the University of Hawaii at Hilo, and as I sit here in the desert heat outside Fallujah, Iraq, I canÂ’t help but envy her. But I can hear the discouragement in her voice when I talk to her during long- distance phone calls. ItÂ’s not the schoolwork or the fact that her only brother is ï¬ ghting overseas, but that her professors talk poorly of American influence in Iraq and...
