From Michael Yon and Bill Ardolino.
Plenty of photographs of the strange brown Other — including some of their young, caught unawares in the wilds — for those of you who’ve let your subscriptions to National Geographic lapse.
Such a strange people! And to think, we’ve given them fire! Oh, the arrogance! Oh, the hope!
To borrow from Eliot — do we dare? And, do we dare?
Promethius Unappreciated
New Totten too.
Now, with Link.
That last photo on Ardolino’s site is nice. The turquoise of the door contrasts nicely with the kid’s skin color.
I noticed something interesting on Yon’s page: they had detained some Iraqis and had them lying face down with plastic retainers on their wrists. They had moved them all into the shade of a low wall instead of making them lie in the sun.
MERCENARIES!!!1!!!111
dicentra,
That was just so they could be closer to where the scorpions were hiding, and the ant hills…
Back when I was among the Hottentots of South Africa, we lived behind a stockade three times the height of a man, festooned with bits of mirror and other shiny things. They’d come out of the bush, attracted by the sparkle of the sun, and we’d lob the contents of our chamber pots into their midst!
Then we’d all have a good laugh over gin and tonics.
Good luck to you Yanks with your current project, but never forget: if God had intended the darkies to be self-governing, he would’ve put them in Europe.
Not just fire but firepower. This has certain Persian hegemons suitably perturbed.
Dan–
Psst!!–(Prometheus Unappreciated…)
C’mon!
If someone is going to have their liver eaten everyday by a crow such as “St Amanda” or the “MahaBlob”, courtesy demands the correct spelling of the victim’s name… :o)
Lord Filibuster, I’m reminded of an old English saying: “Wogs begin at Calais.”
Thanks, Fletch. I realized the mistake just after I posted it. That’s the second time I misplaced an “i” for an “e” in two days. Must have my brain checked.