[MaryFromMichigan]

This very subject has been posted here before.
There is a series of YouTube videos that depict block after block of deserted, looted, rotting neighborhoods.
You literally can't tell parts of Detroit from a war zone.

[hcmama]

I have seen those and you are right--block after block of Detroit looks like Beirut or something.

I guess these images of these beautiful buildings with their brilliant architecture left to molder away looked like something you see when a civilization is destroyed. The books rotting away in the library especially get to me.

[gigster]

I would wager a bet that it is safer in downtown Baghdad than my old neighborhood near Detroit City Airport.