This image from last weekend's FT has captured an aspect of America that many don't see. Even though it's a shot of director Spike Lee (who's new documentary is on New Orleans called "When the Levees Broke") in a neighborhood of New Orleans dilapidated by hurricane Katrina, there is an interesting element that caught my eye.
In the background, on the wall there is a graffiti which says Baghdad. Whoever wrote it, is he trying to give the message that their misery is almost akin to that of the people of Baghdad, Iraq. Or is it that while the Bush government created the mess in Baghdad, nature took it's course on New Orleans and devastated it. Either ways it is a stark reminder of the fact that we are not immune to the dark powers of nature as well as those of fellow human beings.
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