翡翠城里的帝国生活
Imperial Life in the Emerald City
Rajiv Chandrasekaran · 初版 2006 年
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一部关于巴格达 Green Zone 生活的前所未有的纪实叙述。这个被高墙隔开的飞地坐拥高耸林木、豪华别墅和波光粼粼的游泳池，曾是美军占领伊拉克的大本营。
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Imperial Life in the Emerald City
Rajiv Chandrasekaran · 初版 2006 年
一部关于巴格达 Green Zone 生活的前所未有的纪实叙述。这个被高墙隔开的飞地坐拥高耸林木、豪华别墅和波光粼粼的游泳池，曾是美军占领伊拉克的大本营。
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恐怖主义这事完全取决于你怎么看，不是吗？占领军强行按照右翼新自由主义路线重组伊拉克经济，就是另一场战争罪行。去读读 Chandrasekaran 写的《翡翠城的帝王生活》（Imperial Life in the Emerald City）吧。
Terrorism all depends on the beholder, doesn't it? The forced restructuring of Iraq's economy along right-wing neoliberal lines by the occupying force was another war crime. Read "Imperial Life in the Emerald City" by Chandrasekaran.
《翡翠城的帝王生活：巴格达绿区内幕》（Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Baghdad's Green Zone）是一本关于同一主题的绝佳好书。最令人震惊的（至少对我这个外国人来说）是，美国在伊拉克任命官员的过程完全是由……
"Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Baghdad's Green Zone" is an excellent book on the same topic. What is most staggering (to a foreigner like me anyway) is how the appointment of American administrators in Iraq was entirely driven…
……“强行按照右翼新自由主义路线重组伊拉克经济”，我觉得用“右翼新自由主义”来形容不太准确，那基本上就是华约指令性计划经济的温和版。> 去读读 Chandrasekaran 写的《翡翠城的帝王生活》（Imperial Life in the Emerald City）。我读过，写得非常棒——堪称绝妙。简单直接的结论就是：基本上每个人要么无能、要么混日子、要么心不在焉，要么就是腐败。
…Iraq's economy along right-wing neoliberal lines I don't think 'right-wing neoliberal' is the right term for what's basically a soft version of the Warsaw Pact's command-and-control economies. > Read "Imperial Life in the Emerald City" by Chandrasekaran. I did, and it's very good — excellent. The short, short version is that basically everyone is incompetent, time-serving, disinterested and/or corrupt.
顺着你的观点说，拉吉夫·钱德拉塞卡兰（Rajiv Chandrasekaran）写的《翡翠城的帝王生活：伊拉克绿区内幕》（Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone）这本书，就是对这个体制的严厉控诉，控诉了那些无能的政客党羽是如何击败政治关系较少的人选上位的，以及这如何直接……
More to your point, the book “Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone” by Rajiv Chandrasekaran is a scathing indictment on this system, and how incompetent apparatchiks were chosen over less politically connected entities, and how this had a direct…
是的。萨达姆·侯赛因是历史上最糟糕的领导人之一，而新保守派（neocons）居然真以为他们能在伊拉克建立一个自由市场乌托邦（笑死），去看看《翡翠城的帝王生活》（Imperial Life in the Emerald City）吧。他们搞得一塌糊涂，让伊拉克变得更糟，因为他们就是一群无能的蠢货，把整个伊拉克军队都给解散了，甚至都懒得确保民众能获得基本公共服务。普京想重建……
Yes. Saddam Hussein was one of the worst leaders in history and the neocons legitimately thought they could create a free market utopia in Iraq (lmao), check out Imperial Life in the Emerald City. They fucked up horribly and made Iraq worse because they were incompetent morons who fired the entire army and didn't bother to make sure people actually had basic services. Putin wants to reestablish…
……那个 (1) 纯属扯淡，因为暴力加剧时死亡人数上升，现场记者的数量会急剧减少。如果你去读伊拉克记者对自己工作的叙述（比如 Rajiv Chandrasekaran 写的《翡翠城的帝王生活》Imperial Life in the Emerald City），你会发现很多情况下记者压根就没离开过绿区。要是连绿区都出不去，他们怎么可能写得出关于杀戮的报道？我们知道……
…that (1) is absurd because when violence increases, deaths increase and reporters' presence on the ground decreases dramatically. If you read journalists' accounts of their own work in Iraq (for example, Imperial Life in the Emerald City by Rajiv Chandrasekaran), you'll note that in many cases reporters simply never left the green zone. How could they possibly write stories about killings when they can't leave the green zone? We know…