Back to the Past

So now they're going to ring Baghdad with trenches and moats to keep people out. What next - a medieval wall?

Sure, we're making the place safer, day by deadly day.

(Mind you: I'm not commenting on the need for such a network of berms, trenches, and checkpoints; this may well be desperately needed. Nor am I criticizing it on feasibility - though I expect those who have to drive in and out of the city will be dreadfully inconvenienced by it (not high-level American/coalition types who fly from the airport to the Green Zone, of course). I'm only lamenting that need.)