Out of the several blogs that I read, I thought they were very interesting. It was such an easy and interesting read. It was nice to read her perspective on life on Iraq. Riverbend gave her true perspective on how The Iraq war has impacted her life and the lives of whom she knew and also the impact of the country itself. In the blog "The Promise and the Threat" I liked how she points out a myth that many people have about life in Iraq and gives her viewpoint on the truth. I have to be completely honest I was one of those people who believed in the myth that people in Iraq lived uncivilized during the Iraq war. During the beginnings of the Iraq war I was quite young so I really didn't keep up with politics and war stuff, so I was very ill informed. I never really knew what the war was about and why we were there in the first place. Riverbend points out that the myth about Iraqis are outrageous and that they live normally as we do in America. But she does say that because of the war there has to be a lot of rebuilding and reconstructing of all the damage. I feel like I never really sit back and take a moment to realize how hard it must be for Iraqis to have American invading their home and personal space and making a mess of their country.
I thought it was cool that Riverbend kept her identity anonymous. I really like just reading her perspective of things as time passed on in the Iraq war. Many things changed and how and what she wrote also changed. Knowing that Riverbend is a female Muslim was also cool to know. I like the blog "We've Only Just Begun..." Because it talks about how woman were affected by this war. I think her blogs do a really good job of giving a plain and simple but powerful viewpoint of the impact of the Iraq war.
Very nice post! I also focused on “The Promise and the Threat” in my post. I really liked the loving detail with which she described rebuilding Iraq. The engineers were forced to work particularly hard due to their shortage of supplies, constant threat of war, and being forced to learn how to recreate infrastructure initially built by foreign companies. I had no idea the level of engineering that must have had to go into it. I was a young child when the war went on as well, and I remember being taught to mindlessly hate the Middle East without really understanding what was going on. It is very disturbing for me to think about. I think that this blog is a treasure trove of information for combating such ignorance as that.
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