1/11/2008 10:51:26 AM
by Kate
On the news this morning I read an Associated Press report that snow had fallen in Baghdad for the first time in anyone’s memory. The story went on to say how delighted all the people of Baghdad were, watching this “snow-rain” fall from the sky. One man, a shopkeeper, thought perhaps this was a message from God. The AP report concluded by saying, “For a couple of hours anyway, a city where mortar shells routinely zoom across to the Green Zone became united as one big White Zone. As of late afternoon, there were no reports of violence. The snow showed no favoritism as it fell faintly on neighborhoods Shiite and Sunni alike, and (with apologies to James Joyce) upon all the living and the dead.” Maybe it was a message from God. A message for Peace.