In Focus: Youth Voices on Iraq

A few weeks ago, Foreign Exchange showed footage from Iraq by independent journalist David Enders. Enders then took his work into the classroom, meeting with high school and college students. Here you see them grappling with the question of what U.S. policy in Iraq should be. As featured on Foreign Exchange with Fareed Zakaria.

For the Pulitzer Center-sponsored project "Iraq: Death of a Nation," (http://bit.ly/swJtcg) David Enders examines how the U.S. invasion and occupation created a multi-faceted civil war in which the U.S. is now actively arming multiple factions.

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[riflekid44]

I concur with your stance on Iraq. Whether your for this war or against it, whether you've supported the way it has been executed or not, it doesn't matter. We broke Iraq, now we have the moral and political obligation to leave it in a condition better than we found it in. If we don't do that, it's going to blow back into our faces like Afghanistan did. If you don't think that an un-stabled Iraq won't haunt us in the future, you're mistaken and extremely delusional.

[riflekid44]

I concur with ( ) stance on Iraq. Whether your for this war or against it, whether you've supported the way it has been executed or not, it doesn't matter. We broke Iraq, now we have the moral and political obligation to leave it in a condition better than we found it in. If we don't do that, it's going to blow back into our faces like Afghanistan did. If you don't think that an un-stabled Iraq won't haunt us in the future, you're mistaken and extremely delusional.

[beyondeast]

just tell me when it done

am waiting maybe 500 years to see if u r right

[MopacMurtaza]

E-raq...

[STEVE12741]

America must defend her interests...all countries follow that same principle...the EU looks out for the EU, Russia looks out for Russia, China looks out for China and the U.S. looks out for the U.S....

[ChemicalSally]

fuck all the dicks that say "its not americas fault" the US has played a long part in destroying Iraq well before this invasion, there use of Depleted Uranium from the gulf war is killing people to this very day!!

WAKE UP YOU MINDLESS FOOLS

[bar730]

"If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American,it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest".........-Thomas Jefferson-

[sexualartem]

I agree we should not have gone in there, but we definitely cannot leave it in the state that it's in. You think our reputation in the world is bad now, just think of what it will be when millions die in the Sunni/Shiite/Kurdish civil war that will ensue right after we leave. We could easily be responsible for the largest bloodbath the Arab world has ever seen.

[sexualartem]

The Iraqis realize that we want to help them, so they are distancing themselves from the radicals and terrorists. God willing, they will finally do what is best for THEIR country and put THEIR religious differences behind them so they can set up a working government to fix their problems.

[sexualartem]

Very biased view point. After the surge came about, it is clear that the Iraqi people are more willing to work with our troops to help end the sectarian violence occurring throughout the country. It isn't the Americans killing the thousands of civilians, it is the insurgents. It's these stupid insurgents that are bombing schools and hospitals and markets, not the Americans.