This is the third installment in a Back to Iraq series which is basically a single long essay. Don’t miss Part One and Part Two.
TURKISH KURDISTAN - Sean and I dragged our sorry, exhausted, and malnourished selves to the car at 6:30 in the morning just a few hours northwest of the Turkish-Iraqi border. For the first time we had a look at our surroundings in daylight.
Turkish Kurdistan is a disaster. It is not where you want to spend your next holiday.
One village after another has been blown completely to rubble.
Another brilliant piece that's even deeper than the intro suggests, and opens a window into a part of the world that hasn't been presented to us. Folks, you ought to be reading this!
It's a 24-carat indictment of the MSM that the only reporting like this we get is thanks to Totten's tourist side-jaunts.
In a perfect world, this is Pulitzer prize winning stuff. Some of the best reporting I've read in years. Simply amazing. Everyone should be reading that.
And not to take away anything from Mr. Totten's work, but that must stand at present as more as an inditement of the rest of journalism than praise of his work.