It's hard to know how to help reconstruct "ordinary" life after a war. No life is ordinary. Here are reflections on pasts, presents, and futures along the way.
Once again, held up at the Emirates boarding gate, bc no visa has been delivered from Baghdad to Basra - or if it has, it has not made it's way from the visa office to airport immigration, or if it has, nobody has notified the airline. We'll see - but it is pretty clear from the long line of contractors just waved through that Iraq's placing it's bets on China.
- J. R. Pournelle. Posted from my iPhone.
Location:Dubai
posted by J.R. Pournelle @ 5:18 AM
I am an anthropologist, archaeologist, and geographer, engaged in re-building university programs in Iraq. I tend to think about life as lived over the past several thousand years, as well as over the past several hundred hours. I was not embedded in "hot" zones. I was just going about a very odd little bit of ordinary life, in extraordinary circumstances.
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