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...lack of security is driving the country's best and brightest to leave, or at least send their children away. It's a particularly cruel option for Iraqis used to living together in extended clans. The doctor has two married daughters living abroad, and Nafret's dour husband Firas, 40, says his family would leave too if they could afford to. The couple and their two children share the home with Nafret's family. Firas can see no way out of Iraq's current misery. "Everything is bad," says Firas. "Very bad." He and his father-in-law squabble over...
...fight constantly as well because she must say no to almost everything they ask. "They don't behave normally anymore," says Nafret. "All they can do is watch Spacetoon." She kept her son home from kindergarten last year because she was worried about his safety. He missed nothing, her husband interjects, because everything about the school "is very bad." The only entertainment for kids and adults is endless television. In most houses, small private generators keep the TVs going through the daily blackouts. With school out and summer heat above 110°F every day, young people stay up to watch...
...first Gulf War closed the embassy. She would like to find a job again, but her family will not allow her to venture out into the city. So she has no respite from the tedium of her days. She can go to the neighborhood food market only when her husband, busy most days at his job at a radio-installation company, can escort her. But buying tea and soap isn't much of a treat. She has not been able to shop for clothes at the nice stores across town in Karrada for more than a year. If she travels...
...says, worn out by the struggle just to survive. His son-in-law stares impassively at him as he argues that the new government can do better in restoring security because its leaders are Iraqis and, unlike the Americans, understand Iraqi society. Nafret mutters her skepticism. Her husband breaks in with a fierce declaration: "They must!" For families like the Radhys, it's that simple...
ELIZABETH EDWARDS: She keeps her husband down-to-earth...