Didn't Ambrose Bierce say that war was the way that the US learnt geography. We should be getting much better soon.
On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 07:49:02PM -0400, Doug Henwood wrote:
> But I'll say it again - regardless of their IQ, none of the people
> you name knew anything about Iraq other than where to find it on a
> map, that its capital is Baghdad, and that it has lots of oil.
> Country experts in the CIA, the State Department, and academia were
> ignored. People take more care researching vacation destinations.
>
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