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Wednesday, 30 May 2007

US Embassy Baghdad

The new U.S. Embassy in Baghdad will be the world's largest and most expensive foreign mission...
US Embassy Baghdad Iraq
US Embassy Baghdad Iraq
As an outpost, this vast compound reeks of one thing: imperial impunity. It was never meant to be an embassy from a democracy that had liberated an oppressed land. From the first thought, the first sketch, it was to be the sort of imperial control center suitable for the planet's sole "hyperpower," dropped into the middle of the oil heartlands of the globe. It was to be Washington's dream and Kansas City's idea of a palace fit for an embattled American proconsul -- or a khan.

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John L. Knight
Assistant Professor
Modern Middle East History
Eastern Michigan University
john.knight@emich.edu