Truth?
Personal accounts always provide more impact than dispassionate reports or even TV in many cases.
A lot of people have commented with questions asking me about the truth about Baghdad. First there is no ever lasting truth in Baghdad. Is this sudden relative calm a lasting change or a lull before the storm? Nobody really knows.
The violence has dropped to levels of 2005, I still wake up to shooting outside the windows and we hear explosions that shake our desks or sometimes are just a distant boom. Now bombs are killing one or two in Baghdad, it has been a long time since they've killed tens or hundreds. Thank God for any moment of peace for Iraqis.
Via Baghdad.
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2 Comments:
It's really hard to know what to make of what's going on there. Yesterday's NYT article which touted Baghdad as a changed city is hard to take at face value. While I want to believe it, most of the reports I've read say it's merely a lull in the fighting. With no national reconciliation, I doubt that the decrease in fighting is going to last. I mean, we're providing arms for Sunni militia groups while we train the Shia-dominated security forces. That's not exactly a brilliant strategy.
So, it's hard for me to imagine that Baghdad's peace will last. I sure hope I'm wrong, of course.
I would hope you're wrong too, but seriously doubt it.
Fighting waxes and wanes and this is probably just a temporary lull.
It still doesn't sound like Baghdad is somewhere I'd like to spend a holiday.
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