Everyone rushing to declare victory in Iraq — and that means both presidential candidates, too — should read the sad story of Najim al-Jabouri, the heroic mayor of Tal Afar, who last month took his family and moved to the U.S. because, he told McClatchy’s Jonathan S. Landay, “there was no other choice”:
‘I had been serving my homeland, the Iraqi people and Iraqi soil my whole life. I decided I had to do something for my own family. I saw that their lives were in great danger.’
Does this mean Iraq will be screwed up for good? Jabouri doesn’t think so:
‘The future of Iraq will be good, but it needs time. [...] We need more education, more election education, and we need to make the right choices.’
