Mesopotamia. Babylon. The Tigris and Euphrates.

There's a great article by Arundhati Roy in today's Guardian, where she brings together alot of anti-war sentiment.

I didn't much like Roy's God Of Small Things because her prose was so embelished, and this made it hard for me to follow. So I never finished it. But her emotion (and sarcasm!) comes through graphically in this article, which makes it thought provoking and readable, whatever frequency of the war-spectrum you happen to be tuned to. I highly recommend it.

And now this talk of bringing the UN back into the picture. But that old UN girl - it turns out that she just ain't what she was cracked up to be. She's been demoted (although she retains her high salary). Now she's the world's janitor. She's the Philippino cleaning lady, the Indian jamadarni, the postal bride from Thailand, the Mexican household help, the Jamaican au pair. She's employed to clean other peoples' shit. She's used and abused at will.
[ Mesopotamia. Babylon. The Tigris and Euphrates. -- Arundhati Roy ]