Riverbend going into exile

Ever since reading the long-ago post in which she recounted her brief, painful return to her former workplace after the U.S. occupied Baghdad, I've felt that this day would come. She will join millions of her compatriots in an enormous, grieving diaspora. The flight of Iraqi refugees has created a massive and still-growing humanitarian crisis, about which our government is doing next to nothing.

[Riverbend via WIIIAI.]