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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Meanwhile, the rebuilding of Iraq is going so well that the U.S government has decided that the road from Baghdad to the airport is too unsafe to drive, and that U.S. personnel henceforth will be transported there by helicopter. Just another success in our effort to turn Iraq into a beacon of stability and democracy for the Arab world.
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1. What, the insurgents ran out of anti-aircraft missiles? That's pretty hard to believe. I'd rather drive, land mines and ambushes be damned.
2. Nation-building sucks. Has it ever worked, with the possible exception of Germany post-1945 where everything had been bombed completely to shit?
