Home Again, At Last

by Michael J. Totten
I just returned home after spending three weeks in Iraq, two weeks in Lebanon, and one week in transit hell on my way home thanks to a labor strike at the airport in Rome. The behavior of the staff at Italy’s Alitalia airline — management and worker alike — shocked and appalled me. At this point I would rather go back to Iraq than to Italy, and I am not joking. I’m going to write about what happened, partly to blow off some steam, and also to warn you to stay the hell away from that airline at all costs. Alitalia delenda est.
Thanks to Charles Chuman for helping me out on the blog while I was away. Now that I’m back and can write full time, we’ll go back to the regular publishing schedule. Stay tuned for dispatches and analysis from Iraq, Lebanon, and…Italy.