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Newsweek Article Paints The Town

You'll love the article in the Detroit Free Press entitled, "Once A Beauty, Baghdad Bears Many Scars." It highlights the many beautiful visions of happy urban life that were Baghdad before the eeevil 'Murkins came with their troops and their helicopters to ruin that sainted Metropolis. Our Friend Arthur Chrenkoff (and my hero :@) ) fisks the article with his special genius; he is in rare form.

I read this piece in Newsweek a couple of weeks ago, and when I went to Arthur's blog, I was reminded of the author Rageh's apparent disconnect between the wholesale slaughter and oppression that ruled Saddam's little paradise for 35+ years, and the difficult and often dangerous task of creating order from the effort to dislodge that madman from his seat of power. Read the DFP article, then Chrenkoff's fisking - he often says what you are thinking, if you were more articulate and well-read than you are (damn him!).

Edited to add: Chrenkoff responds: "In Iraq, the grass is greener because it's growing on mass graves.

Honestly, the disdain for your own society and fascination with "the other" are one of the oldest trendy persuits of our civilization's sophisticates, going back to Tacitus' "Germania" if not earlier."

posted by: underwhelmed at March 26, 2005 22:36 | link | comments |

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