Iraq News

William Arkin was on vacation last week. He reports receiving his news via the local San Diego paper, hardly a left-wing newspaper given the dominance of military families in the area. Yet all the news coming from Iraq was bad news. Go read Arkin if you want to see the list of messes that is Iraq.

I want to add this about the "wall" being built in Baghdad. Al Maliki has now apparently stopped it. It was an American idea and goes to just how disconnected the U.S. leadership is from the situation in Iraq. Who in their right mind would build a wall in any city to attempt to provide security. And who would build a wall that is reminiscent of the wall built by Israeli's in Palestine? Predictably the Iraqi people (all sides) are rebelling against the idea. But again, it just shows how completely out of touch the American leadership really is about Iraq.