We live in strange times right now. NPR had a story about bird flu in Iraq on All Things Considered this evening. I only caught part of it on the drive home from work, but that one phrase, by Ivan Watson, really caught my attention. He was describing part of the Iraqi government's initial response to finding human deaths due to bird flu in the Kurdish part of their country.
The phrase is packed with elements of barbarism and cruelty (although admittedly a mild form of barbarism). I imagined killing fields for dead chickens and chaos at the fringes of society - at the borders and up in the hills (The only problem is that things are way more chaotic in the center of the country). Anyway, Hunter S. Thompson couldn't have said it better himself.
Yeah, I know - stupid post. So what, maybe you got something better to say.
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