John Filson writes about Iraq in Third Way Cafe:
A Kurdish family bids their guests farewell after sharing an evening meal.
Iraqis are amazingly generous hosts who truly “do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers.” (Hebrews 13:2). But they are also keen observers, assessing the character of their guests very quickly.
As a visitor, if your intentions toward your hosts are sincere and loving, it literally doesn’t matter who you are or where you come from—they will trust you. But if you fail to demonstrate this, Iraqis will smile politely, keep feeding you, and quietly close their minds. As a guest in Iraq for nearly two years I witnessed this dynamic over and over again.
This is the story of U.S. involvement in Iraq. Whatever the reasons were—weapons of mass destruction, oil, “democracy,” or thwarting terrorism, the U.S. did not invest hundreds of billions of dollars and thousands of American lives in Iraq because its primary concern is the well-being of ordinary people who live there.
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