Michael Totten has an article about The Dream City of the Kurds. Really remarkable. Kurdistan has long been the exception to the Long Iraqi Nightmare. With the UN administering the region and free from Saddams bootheel, the Kurds have prospered and are as stable and Western friendly as Turkey. Perhaps even moreso. IMNHO, it shows just what Iraq can be and I pray, will be down the road. Read the whole thing.
This is very strange...
I'm an average guy with an average life. I have a few more kids than most but for the most part I'm just an anonymous lumpenprole toiling away in obscurity both professionally and on this blog. To say my life follows a certain routine is like saying " The Hindenburg caught fire." That is to say, technically accurate but wildly understates the truth. In any event, I just received a call from The Wife. To wit: "Did you order something?" "No, why?" "There's something here for you." "Uh, box, bag, envelope, singing telegram?" "It's a box" "Who's is from?" "It's from [Name redacted pending confession or further investigation]" "Who?" "(repeats name)" "No idea. Never heard of him." A quick google search later I find that the sender's return address is in the wilds of northern Pennsylvania. A place I have never visited. "Open it." "W...
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