A Comparison of Nations

I never really followed the war that closely so I guess it was no surprise to find out I was completely ignorant about the subject. I understood that there were multiple fractions vying for power yet I didn’t and still don’t understand the political upheaval that must have been taking place. Leader’s killed seventy car jacks a day, roadside bombs exploding, what she describes in her blogs is chaos. In the United States the most drastic event that we see is a shift in power in the House of Representatives or the Senate.

What was most interesting to me was to see the viewpoint of a young woman is caught in the middle of this. On the news we don’t get the context of the story which is so important when trying to understand the war. We get terrifying statics of what’s going on like body count which fraction occupies which territory. However relevant this information is, there is no way for me to quantify this data into something I understand. "One of my cousins, and his wife, are Shi’a and when he heard the news, he just shrugged his shoulders and said he didn’t like him much anyway- power-hungry clerics (of any religion) make people nervous, I guess"(Riverbend). When is the last time a major political leader was assassinated in the west? I guess that is a moot point due to the fact that war is not taking place within in a western country however, it just goes to show how little someone like me can understand the constant instability.