Welcome

This blog starts from the time I spent in Baghdad 2006 to 2007, when I wanted to record some thoughts and give friends the inside mail on a crazy environment. Since then, after some time out from a broken ankle and between times working in London, I've been on the road again around eastern Europe, NZ and South America. So far. This continues with the hope of telling anyone who's interested about the new places I'm seeing and the people who make them interesting.

On the right you can find links to previous posts. I need to figure out how to get the order of current posts right. Maybe having used this for a few years it's the kind of thing I should have sussed...

Thanks for looking. Enjoy!

Thursday 7 December 2006

Something didn't smell right......

This is pretty funny. Lighting your farts when you're a kid is one thing, but this takes the cake. Presumably her farts didn't smell like sulphur in the first place...

So the long awaited and much leaked Baker report came out yesterday. Already Bush is ruling out direct talks with Iran and Syria. Well clearly he's got it right so far, so why follow the advice of the Baker Commission? If it wasn't so tragic it would almost be funny. Any plan that doesn't involve Iran and Syria is doomed to failure. The Iraqi police and army are so corrupt that without Iranian and Syrian involvement they will never be able to function as they should. The big difference between the Iraqi army and the army in Kurdistan is that the former are easily bought but the latter are not. You wouldn't ask prisoners to police the streets of the US or the UK, so why do it here? Simply embedding another 20,000 troops with the Iraqi security services won't make a blind bit of difference if you're not getting the neighbours involved. The borders are more leaky than England's middle order so unless you contain the problem you're always treading water. If the Iranian and Syrian borders are sealed and the weapons and terrorists stop coming in, then you can at last begin to deal with a finite quantity of shit. But Bush seems more content to piss in the wind. He must rate the size of his bladder...

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