Holiday in Iraq
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 12.20.02 | 3:44 PM ET
Believe it or not, Johann Hari recently signed up for a package tour to Iraq (yes, they do exist). In a thoughtful story about his trip in The Guardian (UK), he describes the surprisingly warm reception he received. “Again and again, it was startling how little anger there was towards Brits and Americans,” Hari writes. “[Fellow package tourist] Sean walked about rather indelicately wearing a New York City T-shirt and Nike trainers, yet received nothing but friendly hellos and waves in Baghdad. In Basra, one person asked nicely where he was from, and when he said the U.S., the man recoiled and said, ‘Goodbye, sir.’ That was the full extent of the aggression we received from the Iraqi people.”
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Jim Benning is the editor and co-founder of World Hum.
