America: Not So Good At Symbolism

So, first we took over over Saddam's old Republican Palace for our headquarters in Baghdad. Here's how the Atlantic put it, although they accidentally used "Later" when they should have used the term "Immediately to anyone whose skull isn't filled with inert goo":

In April of 2003, as the U.S. Army's Third Infantry Division fought its way into the Green Zone with heavy loss of Iraqi life, the once privileged residents fled in haste, emptying compounds and palaces—and indeed an entire district—that therefore seemed ready-made for American use. Later it became obvious that the decision to install the occupation government in the center of the city and to base it in the very same buildings that had been used by the recent dictatorship was a serious blunder...

Now it turns out we're holding prisoners secretly at what appears to be part of the old Gulag:

The CIA has been hiding and interrogating some of its most important al Qaeda captives at a Soviet-era compound in Eastern Europe...

What next? I suggest we demonstrate our commitment to freedom and democracy by:

• invading North Korea and installing the Bush twins in Kim Jong Il's palace as absolute rulers
• buying Tuol Sleng for use as a new "counter-terrorism" compound
• building a George W. Bush Center for the Study of Human Excellence on the site of Ed Gein's farmhouse