 |
March 20, 2006 |
|
 |
|
|
Land of Rising Hope
FOUND by Andrew Neher
in Minneapolis, Minnesota
This was found in Minneapolis. On the back of this article was an advertisement for America's Independent Electric Light and Power companies. The headline for the ad reads: "Would You Call This Fair Play?" hrm&
Sign in or register to start a profile and keep track of your comments. You may also post without creating a profile, but you'll have to answer some tough spam protection questions.
Like a Hyena May 16, 2006 |
Lounge Master Vernon January 24, 2007 |
Historia December 19, 2005 |
Journal Entry October 02, 2007 |
 |
|
 |
         |
We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
How impeccably ironic.
I found this Ebay offering for a 1957 copy of a Reader's Digest containing this article on Iraq by Edwin Muller.
http://cgi.ebay.com/Sept-1957-Readers-Digest_W
Thanks for that link, Jay. Before I read your comment, I was thinking that the page looked like it might have come from an old "Watchtower" magazine.
.."especially friendly to the United States.. it is underdeveloped, but developing through its own efforts and resources.. all it asks is advice, technical assistance.."
IRAQ: Land of Rising Hope.
By Edwin Muller
THINK of an Arab country of the Middle East, which is not a headache to the West. It is strongly pro-Western, especially friendly to the United States. It is "underdeveloped" but developing - through its own efforts and resources. All it asks from us is advice, "technical assistance." In it Communism can gain no foothold. That country is Iraq, the Lane Between the Rivers - the Tigris and the Euphrates.
Seven years ago the greater part of it was virtually desert. Two thirds of the ---------------pers for the great feudal sheiks. They lived in mud huts, sometimes got as little as one eighth of the crop. Nearly 90 percent were illiterate, more were diesases: malaria, --, dysentery. Town dwellers weren't much better off. Living like -------------------------
Guided by a st----- prime minister, this ----- Eastern kingdom is ------ in its loyalty to the West as ---- its determination in ---- poverty through its own ----
...and look at what America's interest in that "especially friendly" little country has effected. Kinda brings a Rudyard Kipling's "White Man's Burden"/other colonialist thinking aspect to the situation.
This is incredibly ironic.
Iraq under the Shah (sp?) was incredibly modern and forward thinking.
Then there was the whole revolution..
and it became a dictatorship. That is, before we came and fucked things up a little more, of course.