September 30, 2007
A Tale of Two Cities

For today’s essay question. please read carefully the New York Times story from which this excerpt is taken:

Like Stalingrad after World War II, Grozny, the Chechen capital, has reappeared from the rubble. It has done so more swiftly than European cities revived by the Marshall Plan.

As recently as early 2006, Grozny was less a city than rows of shattered buildings overlooking cesspools. It now has electricity almost around the clock and reliable natural gas service. Many neighborhoods have water. Block upon block of housing complexes have been rebuilt, and families have moved into buildings that a year ago were buckling shells.

Now compare and contrast the reconstruction of Baghdad and Grozny.


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Posted by Jerome Doolittle at September 30, 2007 02:47 PM
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Uh...New Orleans.

Posted by: John Shannon on September 30, 2007 4:16 PM

Who could forget New Orleans? Oh, wait a minute. Bush did.

Posted by: Jerry Doolittle on September 30, 2007 6:21 PM

No American dollars or American influence being spent in the Grozny rebuilding. Therefore the dollars actually get used for the intended purposes.

Posted by: tdrbob on October 2, 2007 7:26 PM
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