An American Almost Notices The Outside World

Dave Winer is trying to show the wider picture of the nationalities involved in the Iraq conflict.

He starts well…

“When people say it’s just Americans in Iraq they’re missing something…”

They are. Unfortunately, so is Mr. Winer…

“…America is so diverse, we have people of European, African, Asian, Latin descent.”

sigh

As someone who often quotes BBC articles, I’d expect him to be better informed. From the top of my head I can list the UK, Japan, Australia and, until recently, Spain; and I don’t follow the news stories about Iraq. Five seconds with google shows that in January, 35 countries other than the US had troops in Iraq and the aforementioned BBC provided a summary last month.

What hope is there if educated Americans are so uninformed?