The news from Iraq has been very disappointing on a deeply personal level. My family sacrificed a whole year of separation and my husband missed his third child's birth while deployed to Mosul. He met very brave people who wanted to make their country a better place, some even had notions of attracting tourist to the region, also famous for being the very same Nineveh from the Bible. Jonah was sent by God to tell the people to repent and change their ways and up till recently decedents from the Ninehvites (known as Chaldeans) called Mosul their ancestral land.
I always felt like that year had been worth it, if somehow peace came to the region. So it's a bitter disappointment to see all the hard work, resources, and sacrifices have gone to waste.
To add insult to injury the news that Tikrit has also fallen to the enemy (those that only wish to harm and inflict evil) is also personal, as this is where he was during his first deployment when he missed our second child's birth.
While I suppose most Americans won't have any personal connections to Iraq, and thus might not feel as compelled to care.... I can't help but feel like we've let down the good people and left them to die at the hands of the wicked.
No, I don't want these deployments and wars to go on indefinitely, but one has to wonder if we've done a grave disservice in leaving them to this fate.
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