September 21, 2008
THERE IS NOWHERE FOR YOU TO HIDE
A brief interlude from my faithful blog Sabbath observance. If you read nothing else today, read this in the NYT:
When I left Baghdad two years ago, the nation’s social fabric seemed too shredded to ever come together again. The very worst had lost its power to shock. To return now is to be jarred in the oddest way possible: by the normal, by the pleasant, even by hope....We won. Patraeus '12!Everything here seems to be standing on its head. Propaganda posters, which used to celebrate the deaths of American soldiers, now call on Iraqis to turn over the triggermen of Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia and the Mahdi Army. “THERE IS NOWHERE FOR YOU TO HIDE,” a billboard warns in Arabic, displaying a set of peering, knowing eyes.
By Rusty Shackleford, Ph.D. at 03:26 PM |
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