The sterile, arid environment created by truly jarring and discordant signage and gargantuan billboards is a turnoff.
I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it.
I hope I'm wrong, but I am afraid that Iraq is going to turn out to be the greatest disaster in American foreign policy - worse than Vietnam, not in the number who died, but in terms of its unintended consequences and its reverberation throughout the region.