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Not eligible for Rebecca’s column: Packs of wild dogs roaming Fayetteville, NC

Fayetteveille, NC, apparently is becoming more and more like Baghdad was a few years ago — hot and humid, dog-threatened, and with a lot of Army guys wandering around. I keep on thinking of the Arab who said around the time of the American invasion of Iraq, “You Americans think you will change the Middle ...

By , a former contributing editor to Foreign Policy.
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Fayetteveille, NC, apparently is becoming more and more like Baghdad was a few years ago -- hot and humid, dog-threatened, and with a lot of Army guys wandering around.

Fayetteveille, NC, apparently is becoming more and more like Baghdad was a few years ago — hot and humid, dog-threatened, and with a lot of Army guys wandering around.

I keep on thinking of the Arab who said around the time of the American invasion of Iraq, “You Americans think you will change the Middle East, but I think we will change you.”

Perusing the Fayetteville Observer, I also see that the command sergeant major of Army SF Command is in hot water for alleged adultery and some other stuff.

Thomas E. Ricks is a former contributing editor to Foreign Policy. Twitter: @tomricks1

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