Or as the song once said: "On the road again".
Back in the last days of 2005 when i started to write on my first blog, the situation in Iraq forced me to write, because i had no other window to express my ideas and opinions. I continued writing for 4 years, when i got eventually to busy/too lazy to maintain the first blog.
Then, so many things happened to me during the 5 years between 2009 and 2014, but i wrote only three time on this blog, back in 2011.
Unfortunately, and after years of pseudo-stability, the situation in Iraq deteriorated sharply and crazily. The conditions in Syria, and the appearance of the extremist group ISIL, which occupied about a third of Iraq in a night's day, have changed everything in Iraq, hopefully not forever, because they are all bad changes, filled with blood and misery; that in addition to the extreme stupidity, complete absence of professionalism, stubbornness and selfishness from the Iraqi gov't side.
Here we are... caught between Charbdys and Scylla, like Ulysses... But the hope for Iraq's return, unlike Ulysses, is so, so far away.
Perhaps the most that we can do, like William Dean Howells once wrote: "... is to hope for the best till we know the worst. Of course, we shall make the best of the worse when it comes."
Back in the last days of 2005 when i started to write on my first blog, the situation in Iraq forced me to write, because i had no other window to express my ideas and opinions. I continued writing for 4 years, when i got eventually to busy/too lazy to maintain the first blog.
Then, so many things happened to me during the 5 years between 2009 and 2014, but i wrote only three time on this blog, back in 2011.
Unfortunately, and after years of pseudo-stability, the situation in Iraq deteriorated sharply and crazily. The conditions in Syria, and the appearance of the extremist group ISIL, which occupied about a third of Iraq in a night's day, have changed everything in Iraq, hopefully not forever, because they are all bad changes, filled with blood and misery; that in addition to the extreme stupidity, complete absence of professionalism, stubbornness and selfishness from the Iraqi gov't side.
Here we are... caught between Charbdys and Scylla, like Ulysses... But the hope for Iraq's return, unlike Ulysses, is so, so far away.
Perhaps the most that we can do, like William Dean Howells once wrote: "... is to hope for the best till we know the worst. Of course, we shall make the best of the worse when it comes."
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