Iran Iraq and America

http://www.zmag.org/zmag/articles/ShalomIranIraq.html
The links above is a website that describes the history of the Iranian Iraqi war. In Horowitz’s travels through Baghdad he is taken to the Iraq-Iran front. Here he is shown a gruesome scene of dead Iranian bodies. The conflict between Iraq and Iran killed millions of people and pitted to neighboring countries against each other. The hatred spewing from both nations at the other was immense. It is interesting that this war and all of the hatred that came from it could be stopped, or at least paused so that they can work together to fight a common enemy. Iraqi soldiers are now being supplied with guns, ammunition, and whatever else in order to fight America. These two nations have had nothing hatred for each other for years of war, but apparently the only thing both nations hate more that each other is us. In the text when Horowitz has a conversation with an Iraqi soldier the soldier says, “I do not like to see so much blood. But when the bodies are Iranian, I do not mind so much.” This comment really shows the hatred citizens of Iraqi felt about Iranians. They felt like Iranians deserved to die. I’m sure Iranians felt the same way about Iraqis as well. But when the conflict between these nations ended Iran was happy to supply the Iraqi army because the one thing almost everyone in Middle East hates is America.
D.P.S.