HW 19 " blog heard round the world"

This post is in regards to a paragraph from the article by Daniel Drezner and Henry Farell, "Web of Influence." Several paragraphs in the article mentions a 29 yr old Iraqi blogger with the pseudonym Salam Pax otherwise known as the "Baghdad Blogger." During the Afghan war, Salam was keeping an online journal about his feelings and hardships caused by the war. I believe it is apsolutely essential to get stories from both opposing sides in a war. Since, you cannot trust anything that is said via mainstream media, perhaps a blog such as this one is a good way to get valuable information. For example if i were a Native American and it was the time of english colonialization I woul have greatly apreciated the oportunity to let people across the world know how I felt and what was really going on. To put it another way, the blog humanizes Iraqi's in a way. The Bush administration constantly tries dehumanize the people of the middle east. To see first hand that they are just like us might help people understand this fact. Essentially, I am arguing that reading the views of people that are culturaly different than you can only help you to broaden your horizens. People like Oii and Mao speak with a voice of the people a voice which is hard to ignore.