Fine, sad reporting

Fine, sad reporting

A salute to the intrepid, incomparable Anne Garrels, reporting for NPR from Baghdad. She had a piece on Thursday (5/24/07) that spells out, fact by depressing fact, why our efforts in Iraq are so fruitless. Without a line of editorializing or polemic, she nails down the case that what we have done for the past four years has been a failure.

Here’s a link to Anne Garrels’ piece.

As I listened, I kept wondering: What was so different about the U.S. occupations of Berlin and Tokyo after WWII? Certainly, the traffic lights were working by 1949.