When magazine journalist Parenti (currently a visiting fellow at the City U. of New York Graduate School's Center for Place, Culture, and Politics) asked his 26... » 

When magazine journalist Parenti (currently a visiting fellow at the City U. of New York Graduate School's Center for Place, Culture, and Politics) asked his 26-year-old translator, Akeel, about life in Iraq following the US invasion, he replied, Ah, the freedom. Look, we have the gas-line freedom, the looting freedom, the killing freedom, the rap «