Of course, I'm drawn to a place like Iraq because It's the biggest story of our generation.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Iraq is a country I came to know well and the place where I spent some of the most consequential years of my life.
I am sort of drawn toward places in the world where there is struggle and conflict.
I went to Iraq because I wanted to see what one year of occupation had done to Iraqi society, and I went to the West Bank and Gaza Strip because I wanted to see what three generations of occupation had done to Palestinian society. I found a lot more hopelessness and despair in Palestine.
I saw Kuwait many times before the war. I remember it as a beautiful place, full of very nice people, and it's a tragedy to see that somebody could set out to deliberately destroy a country the way the Iraqis have.
Iraq is a better place, absolutely worth it.
The Iraq War was the biggest issue for people of my generation in the West. It was also the clearest case, in my living memory, of media manipulation and the creation of a war through ignorance.
Iraq can emerge as a beacon of hope and democracy in the Middle East, and the world, with our help.
Iraq is a manufactured conflict for the sake of geopolitical dominance in the area.
It is good that war is so horrible, or we might grow to like it.
Your generation and mine have had very little real experience; we've been severed from the direct experience of war by some very good things. By the end of the draft, and by the defeat in Vietnam.