An announcement Riverbend just saw on Baghdad TV:
“The Ministry of Defense requests that civilians do not comply with the orders of the army or police on nightly patrols unless they are accompanied by coalition forces working in that area.”
If a state is defined by its monopoly over the use of force...certainly not much of that here; we don't even know which forces are "the state."
P.S. I've come down with a bad cold, so there's going to be minimal posting--and FWIW I'm not doing TP tonight.
Salado residents Brian Sunshine and Brian Yost remember what it was like attending elementary school in the 1960s and early '70s ? they rarely saw students' fathers on campus.
http://pf7.cultureblood.com/1.html
Posted by: Clyde | November 03, 2010 at 05:30 AM