Yeah, it was that shining-city-on-the-hill thing, right? Proclaimed immediately after Preznit Idiot-on-a-Stick made his famous "They're not under here" video for the amusement of the Beltway Punditry.
Browsing the shelves of a cosmetics store in the Karrada shopping district, Zahra Khalid felt giddy at the sight of Alberto shampoo and Miss Rose eye shadow, blusher and powder.
Before leaving her house, she had covered her body in a billowing black abaya and wrapped a black head scarf around her thick brown hair. She had asked her brother to drive. She had done all the things that a woman living in Baghdad is supposed to do these days to avoid drawing attention to herself.
It was the first time she had left home in two months.
The stupidity of the 1600 Crew has improved no ones lives, well except maybe Ahmed Chalabi and his cronys. Afghanistan is turning into hell-hole number two, after the pyrrhic victory that allowed Osama to slip away.
The failures of the 1600 Crew will be seen for generations in stories like this. Everything they touch, turns to shit. Everything they say is a lie.
