We're Winning

Last month saw the trickle of positive news from Iraq turn into a flood. Our troops, our allies and the people of Iraq are winning the war against fanatical jihadists murderers. By any measure. But curiously, the American media, the same media that gave 24/7 coverage of Abu Ghraib, Haditha, and the "quagmire" in Iraq, has suddenly gone silent.

Here's a sampling of the astonishing good news out of Iraq in just this last week. News our American media either overlooked or relegated to a couple paragraphs - sandwiched between winter holiday advertisements and the exciting news of how presidential Hillary is looking:

Sen. Lindsey Graham, just back from a Thanksgiving trip to Iraq, said the recent surge of U.S. troops is so successful, it's "history in the making."

Nearly 6,000 Sunni Arab residents joined a security pact with American forces last Wednesday, in what U.S. officers described as a critical step ...

What would be nice after a while is to get so much good news reports on Iraq that everyone just gets bored.
Of course I would prefer to be bored.
But with all the good news, I still caution us all to be a bit leary of the Maliki and Sadr crowd. Maliki is not going to go out of his way to improve the whole of Iraq unless constant pressures are brought down on him.
Sadr. A question mark. What does he really want. His stance regarding foreigners on Iraqi soil most likely has not changed in the least. And what happens after the six month request he made for all under his wing to not attack any coalition troops or Sunni.
Of course as time goes by the Iraqi forces simply get better trained, experienced and better outfitted.
He yet may get railroaded out of the country for good if he tries to pull of a quick one.
We must keep in mind the present mentality of the Iraqi central government is for a long term relationship with the US.
How is this going to effect Sadr's future attitude. Guess time will tell. He and his forces seem to become more marginalized as time goes by.

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