Geographic Oddities in Iraq
By
Carrick
on December 10, 2006 at 07:32 pm
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Of all the geographical oddities (*) in Iraq, Ramadi must stand out as a most peculiar one.
From one’s balcony in the Green Zone, we find in an 11/27 WaPo story focusing on Ramadi that the Anbar pictures grows clearer and bleaker.
On the other hand, if we perform the novel experiment of actually, you know, visiting Ramadi, we find in a 12/08 WaPo that the extended occupation helps [the] US in Ramadi.
Snark aside, this is a good illustration of the problems with seeing the entirety of Iraq through the filter provided by Baghdad. (H/T see Michael Fumento’s excellent pieces Will the real Ramadi please stand up? and The Real Ramadi has stood up. Via Instapundit).
(*) From O’Brother Where Art Thou? “Well ain’t this place a geographical oddity? Two weeks from everywhere.”
From one’s balcony in the Green Zone, we find in an 11/27 WaPo story focusing on Ramadi that the Anbar pictures grows clearer and bleaker.
On the other hand, if we perform the novel experiment of actually, you know, visiting Ramadi, we find in a 12/08 WaPo that the extended occupation helps [the] US in Ramadi.
Snark aside, this is a good illustration of the problems with seeing the entirety of Iraq through the filter provided by Baghdad. (H/T see Michael Fumento’s excellent pieces Will the real Ramadi please stand up? and The Real Ramadi has stood up. Via Instapundit).
(*) From O’Brother Where Art Thou? “Well ain’t this place a geographical oddity? Two weeks from everywhere.”
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