"The country is whole. It has embraced the ballot box. It has created a fair and popular constitution. It has avoided all-out civil war. It has not been taken over by Iran. It has put an end to Kurdish and marsh Arab genocide, and anti-Shia apartheid. It has rejected mass revenge against the Sunnis. As shown in the great national votes of 2005 and the noisy celebrations of the Iraq football team’s success in July, Iraq survived the Saddam Hussein era with a sense of national unity…"
A hopeful, longish look at Iraq, well beyond the political squabbling in Washington, and from a center-left magazine, no less. For that reason, alone, it is well worth the read.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 