Top: US Military image via SubtopiaBottom: 2003 NASA thermal emission satellite image found here
House of Wisdom
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
The Round City of the House of Wisdom
Top: US Military image via SubtopiaBottom: 2003 NASA thermal emission satellite image found here
House of Wisdom
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2 comments:
Helmut nice juxtaposition of the two images. Truly Baghdad is a city afire.
As I indicated in the post previous to this, the city SHOULD be reengineered to where services are decentralized to each area and protected by locals. That means local clinics, morgues, power stations, signal towers, markets, workspaces, and water storage.
Once the faction is secure it may decide to negotiate for specialized services it needs or to cooperate in projects to large for its local zone.
Interzone roads will be contantly swept for diabled vehicles and IEDs and suspicious groups mimicing military or police units.
If a zone is overun or infiltrated and subverted control of interzonal roads limits the spread of enemy forces and limits civilian traffic to urgent necessity.
Don't bother digging Al Sadr out just drop food and water outside the gate and make the infiltrators provide civil services and the like. After all, if they can do that maybe they belong there! In any case it would be one less boot for us on the ground.
Best of all it can be built one protected zone after another by their own hands by local people and local leaders with a small number of specialists from the central government.
I'm glad to see other people referencing the House of Wisdom.
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