Decline and Fall

I've kept this blog largely anonymous for some very good reasons, mostly having to do with the fact that up until very recently I was still in the Army interrogation community. But that has changed, partly for the better and partly for the worse.

It's for the better because I now feel like I can add more of myself to this space. That, and I have been looking for a way to get out of that world and back into academia, which is an environment to which I am more temperamentally suited. Along the way, however, I was made an offer that was too good to pass up.

Which is why I find myself in Georgia, going through inprocessing to go back to Iraq, this time as a contractor doing some computer-system training. I'd be lying if I said I was doing this for anything but the money--I have no great love for computers or this war--but I am looking forward to seeing what the country looks like now, almost two years after I last saw it.

Does this make me a whore? Perhaps. If that's what my readership (rarified though it may be) thinks of me, then so be it. The fact is, I have a chance to not only report from the ground on what I see over there, but become entirely debt-free in the process, all while avoiding the occupation that took me there last time, and for which I feel such ambivalence.

So feel free to wish me luck or tell me off. I'll update when I can, and I'll ty to keep up with and post about the things that continue to interest me.

Labels: Iraq, personal