Today I found a website that allows you to read about every foreign service post in the world. It's called Real Post Reports. People post answers to questions like, "what kind of housing is there?" or "how's security?" On a whim I went to the Iraq page and found this (not exact, but very close) quote:
IDF ( intensity, duration and frequency) is a great big deal. We have had major rocket hits--with significant damage--happen on a weekly basis. If you think you can't die here you're wrong! You can.
This is funny. And terrifying. On many levels. I think what was most shocking to me is that a person intentionally went to a war zone thinking they COULDN'T die.
Anywho, it's probably a wise rule of thumb to consider whether you're sleeping, crossing the street, eating cheerios or living in Iraq---hey, just don't think you can't die. OK?
*Editorial Note: I just went back and checked that post again and the last sentence was removed and replaced with something much gentler. Either things got remarkably safer over the last week, or Big Brother was watching.
Maybe they should change "real post reports" to "real edited post reports"
ReplyDeleteI'm glad we'll get the unedited version here.
The funny thing is that "real post reports" was created as a response to the state department official posts that they felt were edited. Just make sure you read right when I post and you'll get un-edited before I get sent back to change things too!
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