TO HEAR the media tell it, virtually nothing in Iraq is going right. Suicide terrorism, Abu Ghraib, sabotaged pipelines, swelling anti-American sentiment -- the coverage has focused on almost all bad news, almost all the time.
But don't be fooled. There are plenty of good-news stories in Iraq, too. Here are half a dozen.
Moqtada al-Sadr's uprising is kaput. The firebrand cleric issued a statement on Wednesday directing his gunmen to stop fighting and go home. If they comply, the bloody rebellion he launched in April will have ended in failure.
Sadr never managed to win mass support among Iraq's Shi'ites; indeed he was taken to the woodshed by the country's senior Shi'ite leader, Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani. Now Sadr says he supports the interim Iraqi government, and will set up a political party of his own. It wasn't long ago that Sadr was denouncing Iraqi politicians for cooperating with the United States. Now he is poised to become one of them.
[Link to Full Article]By Jeff Jacoby
TO HEAR the media tell it, virtually nothing in Iraq is going right. Suicide terrorism, Abu Ghraib, sabotaged pipelines, swelling anti-American sentiment -- the coverage has focused on almost all bad news, almost all the time.
But don't be fooled. There are plenty of good-news stories in Iraq, too. Here are half a dozen.
