Sorry, I realised that I didn’t once pay tribute to the memory of Margaret Hassan in that last post. I suppose that it’s inevitable that her death is taking on a strange mythical symbolism, but of course we must also remember that she was a very good woman trying to do a very difficult job. I don’t know whether the people who killed her were Sunnis, Shiites, Christians, Jews, Zoroastrians, Satanists or Hydrocarbonites. To me, they could be any or all of these, but whoever they are, they’re bastards on a Nazi-Pol-Pot level of achievement. The one thing that is clear is that the Tigris and Euphrates are now so full of effluent that the world will soon choke on the smell.
Sorry, I realised that I didn’t once pay tribute to the memory of Margaret Hassan in that last post. I suppose that it’s inevitable that her death is taking on a strange mythical symbolism, but of course we must also remember that she was a very good woman trying to do a very difficult job. I don’t know whether the people who killed her were Sunnis, Shiites, Christians, Jews, Zoroastrians, Satanists or Hydrocarbonites. To me, they could be any or all of these, but whoever they are, they’re bastards on a Nazi-Pol-Pot level of achievement. The one thing that is clear is that the Tigris and Euphrates are now so full of effluent that the world will soon choke on the smell.