NO Green Zone
Iraqis watching the New Orleans drama unfold are suggesting that a section of the city be found which is still dry and not on fire which can be designated a Green Zone. There a little city within a city can be set up with running water, lights, toilets, air conditioning and a mess hall suitable for entertaining visiting politicians and anchormen. The New Orleans Green Zone will have a press room with a raised platform from which government spokespersons can dispense inaccurate and/or meaningless statistics, laughable predictions of progress to come, babble about boots on the ground, and praise for the military for bringing democracy and women’s rights to the water logged city.
[Nicholas von Hoffman, “We Coulda Told Ya.", The Huffington Post, 3 September 2005.]