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Look at the farmhouse where Saddam was captured. Outside what I think is the kitchen is one of those cheap, white, plastic garden chairs. The type of chair that everyone has in their back yard, the kind that sits out all year and gets green and mouldy in the winter. Taking into consideration the International Toyota Conspiracy, I'm wondering if we're onto something significant here, something that might reveal why certain events happen and why other's don't. Forget the Trilateral Commission. It's all about consumer products. Three major Middle East wars in 13 years can only be explained by Saddam's need to protect his Middle East Plastic Chair Franchise.
And what's up with Ambassador Paul Bremer's chair, huh?
Posted by: Ron Mwangaguhunga on December 15, 2003 07:30 PMThe New York Times "House and Home" section weighs in:
For many in the West, though, the images of that hut carried with them an entirely different set of associations. Maybe it was reminiscent of the efforts by stoics, priests and others to seek out solitude and primitive conditions, in the desert or below ground, to test, reform or purify themselves. Or of Thoreau's one-room cabin on Walden Pond, built by the writer, for $28, as a place "to front the essentials of life."Posted by: Felix on December 19, 2003 01:01 AM
Our judgment may be dulled by the romance of the compound's agrarian simplicity, by its collection of trees heavy with fruit and by its proximity to the Tigris River. Maybe we imagined how much it might be improved with a little work. Fix the roof, replace the plastic furniture with a couple of Eames chairs and plant a manicured lawn rolling down to the river's edge, and you would have yourself a pretty good approximation of a second home in the Hudson Valley ó or maybe somewhere with a more arid climate, like Arizona or San Diego ó ready for publication in the pages of a shelter magazine.
So? It's a white chair....that doesn't prove anything....what's your point?
Posted by: Stranger on March 1, 2006 09:48 PM