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Wish We Were There

Bill Ardolino’s postcards from Fallujah.  Looks like a nice place. I like the Fallujah City Council meeting shot.  That’s a regular Norman Rockwell hardscrabble New England small-town democracy shot.  

Takes me back to my hardscrabble New England democracy days, covering the selectmen in South Hadley, the aldermen in Holyoke, the City Council in Lowell. Someone needs to paint that.   

Here’s a Fallujan on Fallujah, again compliments of Ardolino.  I’m not sure I’d call the lynching of four contractors a “little mistake,” but there is some interesting insight. Fallujah apparently ain’t Stockbridge.  This Iraqi thinks America’s intervention in Iraq and subsequent meddling by Iraq’s neighbors stirred up the sectarian trouble among the peace-loving Iraqi people, and an American role is the answer. I think he has some parts of that right. But I also think, if he’s a Sunni Fallujan, he may not be fully aware of the role his people’s guy Saddam played in that. 

Anyway, be sure when you’re at INDC, to stop by Ardolino’s donation box, or here, at Public Multimedia Inc.  He’s a regular guy with a regular job just like you who does this on the side.  

Topics: Iraq, pols

  Posted by Jules Crittenden at 9:31 am on Wednesday, September 12, 2007

2 Responses to “Wish We Were There”

1. bird dog Says:
   September 12th, 2007 at 11:20 am

   Sheesh. How did you leave out our beloved Pittsfield?

2. saltydog Says:
   September 13th, 2007 at 3:34 pm

   So Aristotle was wrong! The Americans can be both at fault and not at fault, at the same time.

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