A Long Way To Go
Very interesting interview with P.J. O'Rourke at The Atlantic on Iraq and its future prospects. Bottom line: don't expect too much.
You get on the Iraq side, and there's no visible war damage—maybe some right by the customs gates, but other than that, the town of Safwan is untouched, and it is just a mess. It looks like the old Soviet Union, done in kind of a Mexican style, except without any of the color. And then these old farmsteads out in the semi-desert around there—we're talking really primitive. I've traveled around the Middle East quite a bit. I've seen this kind of poverty in Egypt—no, actually, this was worse.
Via Instapundit.
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