Sunday, February 16, 2014

What is wrong with this sentence in the Washington Post?

"This is a country ruled by a monarch who serves as the overextended host for guests who never seem to leave, his kingdom crowded with stateless people and war refugees — 200,000 Iraqis, 600,000 Syrians and more than 2 million Palestinians."  The irony of the sentence is that the ruler himself (and his royal family) is a guest.