Our Troops in Iraq

I recently read an article in The Week about how many troops the USA has in Iraq and how many it should have. The Week is a pretty unbiased magazine (as unbiased as you're going to get, at least) since they clearly show the opinions of both sides in every story, regardless the topic, and show the pros and cons for each.  This article, interestingly, did not show the opinions of the liberals and conservatives, but instead the opinions of Obama (representing the USA) and the Iraqi President (representing Iraq).  For years, the Iraqi president wanted US troops out of the country, but now that things are actually being implemented, he may have changed his mind.  There are currently around 48,000 troops stationed in Iraq and Obama proposes to drop it down to 3,000, a huge drop.  Now the article does say that there are people in the US that are opposed to this action, but the main opposition is Iraq.  They are now saying that Iraq is not ready to lose so many American troops so quickly, seeing that their issues haven't yet been solved.

All stories about or relating to war have a strong connection to the topic of globalization.  And the story may be pro globalization or against globalization, depending on who's writing and what they're writing about.  For example, in this article, it seems that Iraq is being pro globalization by wanting American troops to stay in the country, while the US is pulling out - essentially recreating the border between the US and Iraq.  However, if we keep our relationship with Iraq in good standing, then the border will not be quite so apparent.  I like to imagine it as a map with different opacity for different border lines.  For the US, the border between us and Canada would be just a ghostly shadow, while the border with Mexico would be a really thick, really dark line.  It would also have a "One Way" sign crudely photoshopped onto the map pointing towards Mexico.  Hey, maybe i'll make it for class one day.  Then I could expand onto the rest of the WORLD!  That'd be a fun class project.  We could do research on each country's relationship with its bordering countries and draw them based on that.