While things have "improved" in Iraq, that hardly means they're good.In case you're tempted by the Kool-aid offered by the administration and it's neo-con allies as to our "progress" in the war, today's Washington Post has an excellent article on the reality on the ground in Baghdad.
Appropriately headlined "'I Don't Think This Place Is Worth Another Soldier's Life,'" the Post focuses on the Army units in the Sadiyah district of Baghdad, which has been a "fault line" in the ongoing sectarian violence in Iraq.
[Note: sometimes, news stories refer to areas such as Sadiyah as a "neighborhood," which evokes visions of a few hundred homes clustered together. Sadiyah and other such areas of Baghdad are better labelled as "districts" since they tend to be as large, or larger, than say Arlington, or Alexandria, containing tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of residents.]
So far, 20 soldiers from the Army's 1st Battalion, 18th Infantry Unit, 1st Infantry Division have lost their lives in Sadiyah, which has only gotten worse while the soldiers have been posted there. It is also where Washington Post correspondent Saif Aldin was recently killed.
If you were starting to think of Baghdad in positive terms, read the Post's piece--it's really sickeningly depressing.
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