Instability = a Breeding Ground for Violence

RE: Wave of Fatal Bombins Widens Fissures in Iraq (April 23, 2010)

By Steven Lee Myers

To the Editor:

This article shows how an unstable country is a violent one. I think Americans need to ask our government if we are contributing or causing much of this violence. The article talked about how these bombings were adding to the instability of the government, bombings which were a response to American presence in Iraq and are helping to destabilize the government that Americans are trying to create. Is this the right course of action for the Iraqi people? Or just for America? One man who had been injured by the bombing summed up the people’s feelings nicely, “The politicians are busy forming the government and forgot all about us,” he said. “They are all useless.” It seems like America is only adding to chaos and violence within Iraq, even though that is exactly what we are trying to prevent. I think that stability needs to come from the people for it to have any hope for permanence, yet what are we doing to help that?