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Morning in America?

A. Lin Neumann
Jan 20, 2009
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I was in Nigeria in 2003 around the time that the insurgency in Iraq first started claiming American casualties after the US invasion earlier that year. Stuck in a traffic jam of Biblical proportions in Lagos, I was listening to the local radio. As a report came in about a clash in Iraq and a number of American deaths, the announcer started laughing and…

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