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The Department of "Who Do We Think We Are Fooling?"
May 24, 2007
A couple of news items have really struck me in the past few days. Last night, I was driving around listening to an NPR (or maybe it was The World...yeah, it was The World) report about the U.S. Embassy in Iraq...the only rebuilding project that is being completed on time and within budget (must have been a HUGE budget) on some of the best land in Baghdad. When the reporter was asked how the U.S. acquired the land, she gave some vague reply about how, in these kinds of deals, the land is usually bought by the other nation or given as a gift. She never really said if either of those was the method by which the U.S. acquired the land...she just said something about how there are hopes that this will be land that is used for diplomatic purposes:
he complex is to be 104 acres, six times the size of the United Nations' property in New York and approximately the same size as the Vatican. It has fortified walls and apartments inside for 615 staffers, to spare them the risk of having to go out on the actual streets of, you know, Iraq. Despite American vows to return normalcy, the new long-term home seems to bet on decades of chaos: Behind the walls, it has water-treatment facilities to cope with the Iraqi capital's lack of potable water, power generation to compensate for Baghdad's erratic electricity, as well as a food court, beauty parlor, pool, gym, and club. All surely necessary to keep staffers safe and sane in unimaginably difficult working conditions. But not quite the kind of facility you build for the long run in one of those normal, friendly countries that Iraq was supposed to become.
And now this...to which I can only say...WHAT THE FUCK?
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