Friday, February 13, 2004

Baghdad seething

Riverbend, author of the Baghdad Burning weblog, has been silent for a few weeks. Now we know why.

I was offline for a few brief periods recently while I was visiting my family, while I was changing ISPs and so forth. But not because a member of my family was kidnapped for ransom.

How little we know about life in Iraq. How far from our lives theirs are. How far from democracy, US-style, that nation is.

What were we thinking when we, with ignorant arrogance, decided to impose our view of the world on people who haven't lived under it?

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