Just a real quick note to say that I'm back, and I'm back with a lot of optimism. Witnessing the elections in Iraq on TV was incredible. People here whine if voting is the slightest bit inconvenient for them; in Iraq, people literally walked miles and risked their lives to vote, and they celebrated that. It really makes a person take stock and look at how much we take for granted in the United States today. People can not be asked to make any effort to vote except to show up. Because of that, we undermine the credibility of our own elections. In another country half the world away, one that has not been as free as our own, the appreciation for and the effort put into voting truly puts us to shame.
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