Misconceptions

Riverbend’s blog really is eye opening to a lot of misconceptions that Americans might have about the lifestyles of people in Iraq. Not that I was surprised that a majority of the people there lead lives that an American would consider normal, I guess I just also took the term of “rebuilding Iraq” as meaning that a lot of the population was not privileged and were living their lives in poverty. I know that I am not the only one that was surprised by the fact that Iraqis do have access to the internet and have running water, plumbing, and other privileges like these. I guess that a lot of the reason that I thought this was because of the messed up politics in their country. Messed up politics can screw up a lot of things for a country. For example, the poor government system in Cambodia is one of the main reasons that the country is in such bad condition right now. The Khmer Rouge Regime knocked out so many of the intellectuals in the country that it left everyone uneducated and desperate for money. So basically, politics suck.