{"id":404,"date":"2008-05-06T09:53:42","date_gmt":"2008-05-06T17:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/2008\/05\/06\/baghdad-tourist-destination\/"},"modified":"2019-04-05T17:36:20","modified_gmt":"2019-04-06T01:36:20","slug":"baghdad-tourist-destination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/404\/baghdad-tourist-destination\/","title":{"rendered":"Baghdad, Tourist Destination?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post-body\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_nHTGhscTujE\/SCBnUBU6emI\/AAAAAAAAALw\/zuQgtiwIWqI\/s1600-h\/greenzone.jpg\" rel=\"fancybox-gallery\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_nHTGhscTujE\/SCBnUBU6emI\/AAAAAAAAALw\/zuQgtiwIWqI\/s320\/greenzone.jpg\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5197267563636750946\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Terry Canaan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>May 6, 2008<\/p>\n<p>Have you ever heard of the &#8220;Friday dump?&#8221; That&#8217;s the practice of putting out embarrassing press releases on Friday, guaranteeing that a story is underreported. The Friday news broadcasts have the lowest  viewership and Saturday newspapers have the lowest readership. If you want to  bury a press release or an announcement, you do it on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>But  sometimes, the news you want to bury is so stupid and crazy that not even friday  is safe enough. What you need for these sorts of stories is some sort of  prescheduled news event that will suck up every square inch of oxygen in every  newsroom in the nation. Something really big, like &#8212; say &#8212; the Superbowl or  Christmas or primaries in two states that have been pushed as &#8220;do or die&#8221; for  the Democratic candidates for weeks on end.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->So it is with plans for  Baghdad&#8217;s &#8220;Green Zone&#8221; &#8212; the heavily fortified area that&#8217;s the target of rocket  and mortar attacks.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2008\/may\/06\/iraq\"><em>The  Guardian<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Picture, if you will, a tree-lined plaza in Baghdad&#8217;s  International Village, flanked by fashion boutiques, swanky cafes, and shiny  glass office towers. Nearby a golf course nestles agreeably, where a chip over  the water to the final green is but a prelude to cocktails in the club house and  a soothing massage in a luxury hotel, which would not look out of place in  Sydney harbour. Then, as twilight falls, a pre-prandial stroll, perhaps, amid  the cool of the Tigris Riverfront Park, where the peace is broken only by the  soulful cries of egrets fishing.<\/p>\n<p>Improbable though it all may seem, this  is how some imaginative types in the US military are envisaging the future of  Baghdad&#8217;s Green Zone, the much-pummelled redoubt of the Iraqi capital where a  bunker shot has until now had very different  connotations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How much coverage do you think that&#8217;s going to  get today?<\/p>\n<p>The idea is to create a &#8220;zone of influence&#8221; around the $700  million US Embassy. <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20161223165108\/http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/WORLD\/meast\/04\/14\/embassy.baghdad\/\" target=\"_BLANK\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">An Embassy the size of Vatican City<\/a>. When you dump that kind  of money into a compound, you want to make sure it&#8217;s in a nice  neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s not. The Associated Press  lists the dominant features in the zone as &#8220;rocket attacks, concrete blast walls  and no sewer system.&#8221; Amazingly, Marriott International Inc. is said to have  agreed to a deal to build a hotel. I can&#8217;t imagine that they&#8217;ll be breaking  ground anytime soon. <span class=\"fullpost\"><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/world\/iraq\/2008-05-01-iraqrockets_N.htm\" target=\"_BLANK\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>USA Today<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Raed Falah Hasan has lost count of  how many times rockets or mortar shells aimed at the nearby international Green  Zone have fallen short and landed in his high-rise apartment  complex.<\/p>\n<p>Three neighbors have been killed and eight injured by the  missiles. One rocket severed his building&#8217;s gas line. His daughter Suror, 4, has  been sick with fear.<\/p>\n<p>Hasan&#8217;s biggest worry is his wife, Nahla, who works  in the Green Zone as a security screener for a U.S. contractor. Whenever a  rocket or mortar round explodes there &#8212; sometimes five or six times a day &#8212;  she calls home to say she is all right.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No word on whether  this is anywhere near the planned golf course.<\/p>\n<p>This is the admission of a  long term presence &#8212; Baghdad John McCain&#8217;s one hundred years in Iraq. You have  to wonder about the investors; are they completely insane? An L.A.-based holding  company for equity firms, C3, has confirmed it&#8217;s starting &#8220;a $500 million  project to build an amusement park on the outskirts of the Green Zone in an area  encompassing the Baghdad Zoo. The first phase, a skateboard park, is scheduled  to open this summer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A skateboard park? Here&#8217;s an interesting question,  in all the coverage of Iraq you&#8217;ve seen over the years, have you <em>ever<\/em>  seen even one kid on a skateboard? I guess it doesn&#8217;t really matter, since it&#8217;ll  last a week before a rocket lands in the middle of it.<\/p>\n<p>And this shining  new example of capitalism and freedom &#8212; assuming there&#8217;s any hope in hell of it  ever actually happening &#8212; will just underscore how bad life is in Iraq. Most  Iraqis aren&#8217;t allowed in the Green Zone. Either you work there or you don&#8217;t go.  This new Embassy district will be a segregationist haven.<\/p>\n<p>Even Navy Capt.  Thomas Karnowski, who led the team that developed the plan, admits they&#8217;re  building from scratch. &#8220;There is no sewer system, no working power system.  Everything here is done on generators. No road system repair work. There are no  city services other than the minimal amount we provide to get by,&#8221; Karnowski  says.<\/p>\n<p>Sounds lovely.<\/p>\n<p>What bothers me most about this is that it&#8217;s  so clearly empire. In his 2000 campaign against Al Gore, George W. Bush ran  <em>against<\/em> the idea of empire or, as it was put then, &#8220;nation  building.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;I&#8217;m worried about overcommitting our military around the world. I  want to be judicious in its use. You mentioned Haiti. I wouldn&#8217;t have sent  troops to Haiti. I didn&#8217;t think it was a mission worthwhile. It was a nation  building mission, and it was not very successful. It cost us billions, a couple  billions of dollars, and I&#8217;m not so sure democracy is any better off in Haiti  than it was before.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, no one ever accused Bush of  not being a big fat hypocrite. &#8220;Nation building&#8221; was bad when Clinton did it,  over-extending the military was terrible when Clinton supposedly did it (he  didn&#8217;t), but building a damned city in the Iraqi desert with golf courses,  hotels, and coffee shops is just a great idea.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, we can&#8217;t even  rebuild the parts of Iraq we blew up. Bloomberg News reports, &#8220;Iraq&#8217;s Nassriya Water Treatment  Plant, the country&#8217;s largest reconstruction project, is a failure so far because  it isn&#8217;t delivering sufficient water to enough people, a new audit says.&#8221; That  represents $277 million for nothing. It&#8217;s not the only one &#8212; Agence France-Presse tells us, &#8220;Hundreds of contracts to  rebuild Iraq have been abandoned short of completion for reasons that range from  poor performance to the killing of the contractor, a US audit said Monday.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Most of the contracts on record &#8212; 743 &#8212; were terminated by the  government because it was no longer considered to be in the US interest to  continue,&#8221; AFP says. In one case, the construction of a police station was  abandoned because &#8220;the building was blown up prior to completion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We  can&#8217;t build police stations, schools, and water treatment plants, we can&#8217;t  deliver electricity or sewer service, we can&#8217;t keep militants from shelling the  Green Zone, but we can build a freakin&#8217; amusement park? Pardon me if I&#8217;m a bit  skeptical. I don&#8217;t think anyone&#8217;s going to be playing a par three in Baghdad  anytime soon.<\/p>\n<p>As I said, all of this will be out of reach for ordinary  Iraqis. Worse, the whole idea&#8217;s a big, shining middle finger to them. &#8220;That sort  of indifference to the suffering of Iraq is provocative,&#8221; writes Spencer Ackerman. &#8220;If I was Moqtada Sadr, I would use  it as a rallying cry.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>No doubt someone will. If this actually happens,  there&#8217;s no way that Iraqis could see it as anything other than a slap in the  face &#8212; a foreign power invades, takes over your country, screws everything up  so badly that you don&#8217;t even have sewers, and builds a big segregated country  club in the middle of the capital. How would you feel? Once again, I find myself  feeling the need to remind everyone that people actually live in Iraq.  Sometimes, it seems like people forget that.<\/p>\n<p>No wonder they put this out  yesterday &#8212; there&#8217;s no way they want anyone talking about it today. There&#8217;s  just no part of this that&#8217;s anything close to a good idea. One more disaster,  one more huge waste of money and time and lives. One more plan that&#8217;s so bad  that the Pentagon and the administration doesn&#8217;t even want you to know about  it.<\/p>\n<p>If you ever needed proof that war backers don&#8217;t live in the real  world, there you go.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Terry Canaan is a former political fundraiser living and writing in  Wisconsin. 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