{"id":47604,"date":"2023-03-21T02:45:02","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T02:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=47604"},"modified":"2023-03-21T02:45:02","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T02:45:02","slug":"a-million-lives-later-i-cannot-forgive-what-american-terrorism-did-to-my-country-iraq-sinan-antoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=47604","title":{"rendered":"A million lives later, I cannot forgive what American terrorism did to my country, Iraq | Sinan Antoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The \u2018new Iraq\u2019 that the warmongers promised us did not bring Starbucks or startups, but car bombs, al-Qaida and Islamic StateSinan Antoon is an Iraqi poet and novelistIn early 2003, I was living in Cairo and carrying out research for my doctoral dissertation on a famous Iraqi poet who lived in my hometown&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2023\/mar\/19\/violence-us-invasion-iraq-bombs-al-qaida-islamic-state\" 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