>>The following is all I need, re your: "FYI, clearly, there may be some things that are getting better in Iraq."
There is our common ground. You agree. You are oddly, IMHO, less certain than I am that "some" things are getting better in Iraq, but you promote the notion here just the same, and didn't provide links either (and shouldn't need to any more than I should when stating the well established).<<
Dan -
That's tortured logic at best, and we certainly do not agree.
You said, "In point of fact, things are getting better in Iraq." That could only be construed as meaning, categorically, that the situation overall is improving.
I said "There MAY be SOME things that are getting better in Iraq," and you cite that as proof that things are getting better there. I think the idea that things are getting better there overall is far from a well established fact. Again, you stated it as a fact, but you haven't provided one whit of support for your statement. I don't think you can support it.
The electrical power infrastructure isn't improving. The potable water situation isn't improving. Security isn't improving. Iraqi security forces are poorly armed and outmatched by their multiplying enemies. Civilians are being killed at an alarming rate. The economy isn't improving.
Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?
- Allen
PS: Here's a link with information supporting my view, first-hand from Iraq. Note what Ms. Raddatz has to say about her interview of 200 Iraqi security forces in Sadr City.
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