Finances and physical condition aside, would any of you decide to take a backpacking vacation on the Iraq/Iran border? Okay, you're young and stupid and you've got a lot of money and you want to go some place exotic on your vacation. There's Machu Picchu. There's Nepal. There's Cambodia. There's a couple wild and wooly Stans down below Russia. There's Alabama. There are literally thousands of locations where we don't have an ongoing military and/or political conflict.

Tourists? Yeah, right.




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