In the course of conflict, ask yourself, what are you able to offer your children, and your children's children?  In the present ethos in which the blood and Iraqis and Americans are now both mixed in various cities / village streets, highways, valleys, and hills of Iraq what is more noble.  To build a civilization based upon the free trade, or the continuation of more ancient traditions of inter - strife and conflicts?

 

In the view of the emerging technologies, which are themselves are a direct result of free trade societies, the next few years will come even more dramatic advances.  Ask yourselves, one and all in Iraq, how then will you be able catch up while at the sametime being able to be self-dependent as a peoples ( note the plural ). 

 

Look at the developements which are coming out of the technological machine of free trade, and look yourselves in the mirror.  What is your place in this real world of civilization ?  Think out what you feel, believe, and take this one sole advice.

 

Rebuild yourselves anew through a cooperative focus in fully reopening and securing the University of Baghdad, and allow an academic accord of freedoms to exist in which your children, and then much later, their children can resolve the real differences you have while you are constructing a rebuilt Baghdad and Iraq.  Let your children's sense of idealisms and search for truth be so liberated that hope will appear and Iraq can begin to become self-dependent by their resulting and collective discoveries about themselves and others who call themselves Iraqis.

 

Roger Meredith Christian

ithaca, New York