Road Dispatch:

My most recent week of travel, Monday to Friday, was Philly-Detroit-Philly-Washington DC-Philly-Minneapolis-Philly. I posted Road Dispatches from Detroit (which included conversations with an Iraqi cab driver) here and Washington (which included observations of how DC residents now think about sirens) here, and have some final thoughts from the Minneapolis trip.

For the most part, Minneapolis was an experience of the war as a non-event more than event. Shock and awe more appropriately described the looks on the faces of leisure travelers as they saw the very long security lines at the airport ... longer than usual due to the beefed-up efforts of the TSA ... than it did our air campaign. Otherwise, life in the airports was completely normal save what was on the TVs, which served a steady diet of war-hoops-war-war-hoops-war.

One highlight: another cabbie experience, this time an Ethiopian ... who was beside himself that the American public and the world did not fully support our efforts. "Saddam is a criminal, a madman," he said. Interesting, in all my travels, I have yet to speak with a single immigrant from the Middle East or Africa who does not support our action ... is it possible they have a perspective in coming to America that others (including many of our own citizens) do not?