Occupying Iraq, Liberating Ethiopia

Sunday, 2 December 2007

‘It is a great guide book, but it should not be the basis of an occupation.’

That’s a quote from former American ambassador Barbara Bodine, who was given the job of helping to reconstruct Iraq, about the role our Middle East guidebook played in the US occupation.

In the last few years my travels have passed quite a few abandoned Russian tanks like this one in Afghanistan in 2006

and these in Ethiopia in 2005. The story also covers our part in the overthrow of Ethiopia’s Soviet backed dictator Mengistu.

The story also covers our part in the overthrow of Ethiopia’s Soviet backed dictator Mengistu.