Current Events: Unrest in the Middle East

In 2002, the Taliban attacked the World Trade Center in America. Before, when the Russians invaded Afghanistan, they didn’t get involved. Now that they were directly attacking America, President George W. Bush felt like he had to get involved. “Back home, bombs are falling once again, this time American bombs” (Hosseini 385). Of course, Osama bin Laden, the leader of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Twin Towers, was kept in the country because he was a mehman, a guest. “Tariq chuckles bitterly, and Laila hears in his chuckle that he is revolted by this distortion of an honourable Pashtun custom, this misrepresentation of his people’s ways” (Hosseini 384).

                Now, the war in the Middle East has settled down. However, a new civil war is rising up in Iraq. To supplement my observation, I found an article about that mentions the violence that the Middle East, specifically Iraq, is encountering some violence in the cities.

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2014/Apr-05/252389-iraq-christians-say-homes-seized-as-unrest-spikes.ashx#axzz2yJbl7DLR

                For this entry, I decided to look in the news section of Google to find any current events that may be related to my book. I managed to find a very recent article about unrest in Iran. “As Iraq suffers its worst violence in years, gangs claiming ties to powerful miltias have been commandeering empty homes in Baghdad” (TheDailyStar.com). Unrest has seemed to escalate during the past year since the Americans have officially left the country. When President Barack Obama came into power, he managed to use his powers as Commander-in-Chief to defeat Osama bin Laden. After that, the Americans had no reason to be on their soil anymore. Now, since the American soldiers pulled out of Afghanistan, unrest seems to be spiking. It seems that the American presence in Afghanistan kept civilians peaceful and now gangs are rising up because no one can stop them.