News item:  Green Zone food supply disrupted, spokesman "misses yogurt in the morning and my fresh-cut melon."

Meanwhile at OP Anchorage in Kharma....

...Paratroopers dine on a meal of lamb slaughtered that afternoon served with rice and flat bread prepared by the local butcher/caterer.

Enjoying their meal

Total price tag for the rooftop meal for a platoon of paratroopers and a platoon of Marine Combat Engineers?  $80.

Lamb halal slaughtered, cooked, delivered and served by Shiahabi's butcher. Delicious.

There was so much food left over that the paratroopers gave the remainder to the local men of the PSF manning the fighting position in the cemetary.

I titled this post A Tale of Two Wars.  But there is only one war and it is fought by men like the paratroopers above.

If you eat fresh cut melon every morning--you are near the war, but not in the war.

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