I don’t like Baghdad. War aside; this isn’t a very nice place. It seems like everything is brown and covered in either mud or dust (and sometimes both). Outside the wire, it is trash covered with mud or dust. It occurred to me that if you painted everything grey instead of brown and replaced the dust with black soot—this place would be a ringer for one of the cities in Eastern Europe. At least that is what it reminds me of. I guess when you live under an oppressive regime , aesthetics go out the window. Maybe that is why the last time I was in what used to be East Germany, I saw that they painted a bunch of grey buildings purple, yellow and blue—just to lighten the place up a bit. I wonder if place will have some color in a few years.
Oh well, at least I’m not in New Jersey
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