At 10:41 AM -0700 10/27/04, James A. Donald wrote: >What worked in Afghanistan was to find some local warlord we >could live with, someone in no hurry to get his six pack of >virgins, someone who might want to put sacks over the heads of >the women of his town, but had no grandiose ambitions to stuff >all the women of the world into bags, and then we cut a deal >with him - we help him his slay his enemies, he helps us slay >our enemies. > >Unfortunately the US plan to bring democracy to the middle >east, and to preserve Iraq as a unitary state, keeps getting in >the way of this sort of deal.
Except, apparently, in Iraqi Kurdistan: <http://www.livejournal.com/users/giantlaser/58953.html> Wherein Ryan Lackey's boss has left Baghdad for a nice hotel upstate... :-) Ryan, apparently remains downtown where all the fun is... <http://www.livejournal.com/users/giantlaser/59447.html> page down to see Ryan in all his former dry-suited Sealand glory... I recommend Tyler <http://www.livejournal.com/users/giantlaser/> and Jayme's <http://www.livejournal.com/users/slownewsday/> Iraq Livejournal blogs as a wonderful example of inadvertant anarchocapitalism in action. Inadvertent, because, of course, they *really* wanna be statists, liberal ones in fact, in spite of evidence all around them to the contrary. I still think they're heroes. Hell, as far as I'm concerned, *Ryan's* a hero at this point. Nick Berg lives. Cheers, RAH -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'