Today’s Big Picture in Iraq
Strategy Page posts some Trends You Don’t Hear About (from the MSM, that is). Some choice quotes:
- The economy. GDP doubled from 2003 to 2004, and was up double digits in 2005. Inflation and unemployment have both been falling steadily.
- Now, for the first time in half a century, Iraq is exporting food.
- Since last Fall, over fifty U.S. bases have been transferred to Iraqi control. American troops are moving to larger, consolidated, bases out in the countryside.
- Iraqi has gone from police state, to media madhouse, in three years.
- Al Qaeda, and Baath Party terrorists continue to carry out enough attacks to keep foreign journalists occupied, but the terror campaign is much diminished over the past year. There are still several suicide bomber attacks a week, and assassinations of government officials or tribal chiefs continues. The terrorists are still obsessed with the idea that they can foment a civil war. But most Iraqis look at the terrorists as a crime problem.
[HT to non-blogging Advised by Wolves.]
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