Since the beginning of the invasion of Iraq, a young Iraqi woman has been blogging her experience at Baghdad Burning. As the years have gone by, and the situation has grown more and more desparate in Baghdad, her family has been agonizing over whether to stay or get out. They have finally made the momentous and painful decision, leaving their house in the care of a relative and taking a few possessions with them to Syria.
Read the post she created about the leaving. One thing she talks about is the choice of escaping to Jordan or Syria. She says that Jordan treats the refugees badly, but what I'm thinking about her family and other Iraqi refugees is that the choice of Syria might just be keeping a few steps ahead of the carnage. How soon before they have to find another place to go (or wish they'd gone to Jordan.) After all, the neocons always considered Iraq simply the first step on the road to Syria.
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