> Bill, > > > "Among the many secrets the American government cannot keep, one of > > its biggest (104 acres) and most expensive ($592 million) is the > > American Embassy being built in Baghdad. Surrounded by > > fifteen-foot-thick walls, almost as large as the Vatican on a scale > > comparable to the Mall of America, to which it seems to have a > > certain spiritual affinity, this is no simple object to > > hide." > > Well, 104 acres is not as large as all that. When you put up > an embassy in a war zone I don't see anything wrong with > putting up thick walls and using 104 acres. That's > essentially the size of a good-sized suburban tract-home > development. It is larger than most city zoos and smaller > than the Wild Animal Park in San Diego County.
Good point, but it will need to be protected in any case. That's problematic in a hostile withdrawal situation, don't you think? > Of course, I live on a 20-acre parcel. Rather than make it > sound really big by comparing it to the size of the Vatican, > perhaps we could acknowledge just how tiny Vatican City is. > That would make more sense to me. I think the writer of that article just wanted to convey a sense of it's size, and for some reason chose the Vatican to compare it to. I've never been to the Vatican, so have no idea how big it is. In fact, I don't know what 104 acres looks like, coming from the city, so I'm not getting a visual from either metric. If they said it was 1/8th the size of Central Park, that I can relate to <s> Bill > -- Kris > www.shamrocktrails.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
