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Monument to Small-Nation Penis Envy

The only way to make sense of Dubai is to never forget that it is not real. It is a fable, a fairy tale. More correctly, it is a cautionary tale. Dubai is the story of the three wishes, where, as every kid knows, with the third wish you demand three more wishes. And as every genie knows, more wishes lead to more greed, more misery, more bad credit, and much, much, much more bad taste.
Dubai is Las Vegas without the showgirls, the gambling, or Elvis. Dubai is a financial Disneyland without the fun. The first thing you see when you arrive is the airport, with its echoing marble halls. It is big enough to be the hub of a continent. Dubai suffers from gigantism -- a national inferiority complex that has to make everything bigger and biggest. This includes their financial crisis.

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