ABSTRACT
I live in New York City and can remember only too vividly the horror of the horizon of smoke and fire that filled the New York sky on September 11, 2001. And I can remember the terrible fear that came with not knowing if there would be another attack. But the people in Baghdad did know there were going to be other attacks from the United States. Waiting day after day, night after night in fear as the search for Saddam Hussein continued. There is no way to protect against the kind of bombardment that the United States was pursuing as part of its strategy, which is of course part of the point. It is a strategy that is meant to bring out the paralysis of helplessness. The bombardment begins with no relief in sight, with nowhere to run, and nowhere to hide.
