Philippines Likely to Supply Many Workers Rebuilding Iraq

i really don't know what to think about that. i know that employment sucks over in the philippines and that many filipinos work overseas to earn money to send home (i think its the initial reason my mom is here). but, why do i feel like filipinos are used as cannon fodder? maybe i'm just paranoid. i hope so. my rant on the abuses and brutalities on overseas filipino workers will have to be saved for another late, insomniatic night.

anyway xab and i started having a conversation about this and "brain drain" or the migration of skilled/trained persons out of a country into another region. when c visited the philippines and when i talk to my grandmother who is in the philippines there's always this talk about 'home'. "when are you coming home?" "how long are you going to be home?" "you should come home." since i'm the kind of person that likes to obsess on things that seemingly have no point or can have no solution, i find this bizarre. but in their whole overall plan, were we suppose to come 'back'? sometimes it feels like that. my grandparents somewhat 'let' my parents go abroad for whatever reason with the initial impression that they were going to come back. except they kinda had kids and had to settle down... except in another country. i guess it's just my grandma. maybe she has an illusion that we're all going to come back someday.