![]() ![]() Like a victim of post-traumatic stress, the country is also prone to the opposite behavior: phobia. According to novelist Robert Herrick: "It is as if the war had never been."īut while it's understandable that people would rather think about anything other than Iraq, it's hardly healthy to act like the war never happened. When the Civil War ended in 1865, newspapers "moved on to mundane events, as if the war had never taken place." Again, after World War I ended in 1918, people tried to blank out their memories of the fighting. ![]() Following the intense focus on violence and bloodshed, people naturally want to change the subject. Temporary amnesia is quite common after America's wars. Obama said barely a word about Iraq, even though his presidency is, in many ways, a child of the war. Prominent Republicans and Democrats were largely silent about the war, having seemingly scrubbed their memories of the worst debacle in recent American foreign policy-the eternal sunshine of the politician's mind. In Washington, the 10-year anniversary of the Iraq War prompted an outbreak of collective amnesia. Marine Corp Assaultman Kirk Dalrymple watches as a statue of Iraq's President Saddam Hussein falls in central Baghdad's Firdaus Square, in this file photo from April 9, 2003. ![]()
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