I’ll have to go back home to write everything.. I spent about half of today’s class discussing the Iraq situation. My teacher, like so many other people over here, assumes that the US is getting all sorts of money and oil from Iraq. I told him that the US is spending TRILLIONS of dollars and not getting anything out of it. We are not benefitting from it at all. Of course he asked the obvious question of “Then why are you there?” I did not have a good answer….
Did you know that many people here are rooting for Hillary Clinton? Do you know why? One of the really obscure Republican candidates announced his idea that we should threaten to use nuclear weapons on Mecca and Medina if a terrorist uses them on the US. Of course here people think that if he is elected he will immediately commence bombing. I really wish that people would just shut up. Why even mention the possibility of blowing up Mecca and Medina, it can only cause trouble.
I have lots more but I don’t have time right now, if things go well, I should have a bunch of new posts tomorrow…