[lbo-talk] (WP) Shadid: This is Baghdad. What could be worse?

Michael Pollak mpollak at panix.com
Sun Oct 29 13:16:47 PST 2006


Anthony Shadid's one-year-later story:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/27/AR2006102701487.html

It's more anecdotal and less analytical than Patrick MacDonnel's article in the LAT last week, but in some ways even more remarkably despairing for a bellwether newspaper. By halfway down, it reads like something out of In These Times. By the end, he says civil war is a polite term for what this is.

The title comes in response to his question to an Iraqi: "Do you think things would be worse if the Americans left?"

Michael



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