American bases…
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…are so American. Tipping into one on a Black Hawk from Baghdad, looking like I’d been microwaved, I stumbled into a world of cavernous dining halls hung with red-white-and-blue streamers, of concrete blast walls painted with logos of baseball teams and every flavour of Baskin Robbins available. It’s a shock sometimes to step outside an air-conditioned reinforced tent or hangar and into a baking desert landscape rather than onto an, ahem, “regular sidewalk”.
admin @ June 14, 2009