"Remarkable"

That's the BBC reporter's word for the results of cooperation between the US Army and the Sunni "Knights of Mesopotamia" in Baghdad (when I saw the BBC World story on CBC Newsworld at 1800 Eastern, Nov. 28, I'm sure I heard the word "spectacular"; can't find the video online).

"At the beginning, people saw it as an occupation which had to be resisted. But then they saw that the Americans were working in the interests of the people.

"They saw al-Qaeda doing terrible things. They were killing Sunnis, Shias, and Christians. There were bodies everywhere, being eaten by dogs. So we had to fight them," Abul Abed said.

[...]

We hear American helicopters buzzing overhead reminding everybody who is the real power behind all this, but the transformation on the ground is remarkable...

The major media, to give them some credit, are now covering this sort of development.

What a colossal irony it would be should the "bad war" (Iraq) succeed and the "good war" (Afghanistan) fail...

Mark C.

Update thought: Of course, as far as I know, the Canadian media have no-one actually on the ground in Iraq. So much for "Canadian perpectives".

Posted by markc at November 28, 2007 08:34 PM