Mercer's 2010 Quality of Living Survey ranks 221 cities, with Vienna at the top. And Baghdad at the bottom. Yes, Baghdad. The one that we went to so much effort to "liberate" and improve".
All at the behest of the Israelis. I hope that they are very proud that, as Radio Four will detail at 8pm, there are now only seven Jews living in what was that one-third Jewish city a century ago. I might add that the Shrine of Ezra the Scribe (who invented both synagogues and the square Hebrew script) is already a mosque, with the Shrine of Ezekiel, featuring some of the oldest Hebrew inscriptions in the world, next on the list.
Perhaps they are. This is all very Avigdor Lieberman, after all.
And interestingly, on the other side of the coin, Vienna is in one of the few countries where the national Social Democratic Party is still arguably worthy of the name.
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand, it is well known that American conservatives tried to turn Iraq into a model neoliberal state, with mass privatization, drastic cuts to public employment, private companies, including private security forces, running amok, etc.