Marginalia
April, 2007
FROM BABYLON'S ARK,published in March by Thomas Dunne Booksand written by Lawrence Anthony, a South African conservationist who helped save the Baghdad zoo after the U.S. invasion: "At the height of the anarchy I asked several American officers and soldiers for a gun, arguing that we were the only people on duty in the theater (as they called Baghdad) without a weapon. The request was always refused. They said they couldn't go around giving weapons to civilians. But without a gun we would...
