Before / after satellite photos of Saddam’s palace in Baghdad, Iraq. Note the new parking lots, modular housing, restoration of the waterworks, and other interesting markings of new tenants in the emperor’s crib.
Give the Americans credit. They can destroy a country, but sure know how to build parking lots. But as the image map in the link above demonstrates, when America intends to bring democracy, it is no doubt couched in the aesthetic of the car. If you live or spent any time in the United States, you know what I mean. After all, Wal-Mart, the most successful creature of the American system, is a byproduct of the parking lot mentality: make an island with a big box inside it, and create the births for the cars to dock.
Incidentally, Maps of War, the site that created the contrasting images, has a number of interesting flash maps of world history.
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