Empire’s Architecture

Should it ever be finished, the U.S. embassy in Iraq will stand as a colossal monument to the Bush administration's failures

By Allen McDuffee

Panic shot through the State Department and White House earlier this summer when the American architecture firm Berger Devine Yaeger posted computer-generated images and layout of the forthcoming U.S. embassy in Baghdad on its website. Ostensibly concerned with security, government officials urgently acted to [RETURN TO ARTICLE]

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    Congress is taking their typical approach

    United States Posted by whattheheck on Jan 8, 2008 at 7:49 AM

    I’m more disturbed by the “architecture” of so many enduring military bases.

    All of this comes down to our addiction to the petro-tit and the echoes of past interventions in the region going back two generations on behalf of that same wasteful addiction (which includes an addiction to being wasteful, sorry to say… last time I was stateside I couldn’t get over the number of elephantine vehicles all around, as though the drivers figured to be driving up a mountainside instead of a wide-laned Southern California boulevard… the great-grandchildren are going to hate our guts…).

    Philippines Posted by Kuya on Jan 15, 2008 at 2:09 AM

    This monstrosity should be turned over to the Iraqi people to be used as housing to replace their bombed out homes. 

    I would ask who dreamed up this royal mess but it obviously came from pResident Cheney and his sidekick.

    United States Posted by Magginkat on Jan 16, 2008 at 6:34 PM

    Kuya and Magginkat,

    Let’s take the long view.

    As we have each indicated this is not an approach to the problem which was initiated by the W administration. In fact, this is a centuries old “solution” to any perceived national problem.

    Hitler tagged it Lebensraum

    United States Posted by whattheheck on Jan 18, 2008 at 7:13 AM
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