Iraqi policemen assigned to the 2nd National Police Division's 8th National Police Brigade and U.S. paratroopers assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division's 2nd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, Multinational Division Baghdad look down a street while patrolling Sumer Al-Ghadier, in the 9 Nissan district of eastern Baghdad during Operation Asfah Ramlyah. The combined forces teamed up to confiscate several weapons and disrupt insurgent activity. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Alex LiceA Quiet but Undeniable Cultural Legacy -- Washington Post
U.S. Occupation of Iraq Will End, but a Host of American Influences May Linger
Across the street from the tidy rows of tombstones in the British cemetery, mute testimony to the soldiers of an earlier occupation, Mustafa Muwaffaq bears witness to the quieter side of the United States' six-year-old presence in Iraq.
In wraparound sunglasses, shorts and shoes without socks, the burly 20-year-old student waxes eloquent about his love for heavy metal of all kinds: death, thrash, black. But none of it compares, he says, to the honky-tonk of Alan Jackson, whose tunes he strums on his acoustic guitar at night, pining for a life as far away as a passport will take him.
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My Comment: I can only hope that they take the best of our culture, and not the worse.