JOINT BASE BALAD, Iraq – It’s a common sight in the developing world: The poor wearing secondhand clothes from the United States.¹

It can be a weird mismatch1: You can see 50-year-old men wearing Hannah Montana T-shirts. Or some guy who can’t say "bonjour" wearing a Casino de Montreal hoodie.

But today I came across a guy who has some serious taste. This Iraqi, on base as a day laborer, was wearing a Louisiana State University sweatshirt.

For those who don’t know, that’s the greatest football program of all time.

^{1 – It’s also tremendously sad. The clothes we donate often get dumped at cut-rate prices on poorer economies, depressing the price of clothing and often effectively destroying a domestic textile industry.}