Not sure how well this is being publicized in US media, Gerald.
Certainly it is being written up elsewhere:
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2481030.ece
and, as you sharply suggest below, it is but a further example of
imperial violence....
pleas to closed ears....
Doug
On 23-Apr-07, at 9:28 AM, Gerald Schwartz wrote:
> In Baghdad,
> there's a wall being
> built by the U. S. Military
> to surround the Adhamiya
> neighborhood, a
> Sunni Arab enclave
> bordered by Shiite areas...
> Reminding me of
> other walls--
> making me think:
>
> The Iraq question is
> open as long as
> this wall is in place;
>
> making me think:
>
> Es gibt bur ein Baghdad;
> making me think:
> Ic hab boch einen
> koffer in Baghdad;
>
> making me think:
>
> Mr. President, if you seek
> peace, if
> you seek prosperity for
> Iraq... and all the region,
> if you seek liberalization,
> Come here to this wall!
> Mr. President, open
> this gated community!
> Mr. President,
> tear down this wall!
>
> Gerald S.
>
>
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