Juergensmeyer

Mark Juergensmeyer shares with us his trip to Iraq and what he haslearned about terrorism and its relation to religion. I find it sointeresting that he goes and has actual conversations with people onthe otherside of this war. Its one thing to hear whats going on iniraq from the news but the media will hardly ever portray thethoughts and feelings of the iraqi people. It seems they just wantto show them as the enemy and emphasize the good that the US is doingover there. I know most of the american people support the troopsand what they are doing. This feeling was probably even more soimmediatley following the 9/11 attacks, however, these same peopleare probably not asking themselves why would someone actually want todo us harm.

The idea of a government is supposed to be there for us and have ourbest interest at heart. Our government does not seem to do so.There are alot of things that our government takes part in that we donot know about. The way they maintain relationships with othercountries is decided by them and we pretty much have no idea how theyare interacting with other governments. This is scary because the USgovernment may very well be doing things that we would not approveand they basically represent us as a whole. The people that we haveput in charge and our trust in could be completely evil. The worstpart of this is that other countries view us as a whole and possiblethink all americans are evil. This war is about the government.They made enemies and they should be the one fighting it not us.