True, there are improvements. But to say that we've won the war, we'll that's right up there with President Bush's "Mission Accomplished". And, if you read the entire article excerpted below, you fine that even the author admits life is pretty grim in many spots. And the violence continues.
Long-time Iraq correspondent for the London Times (not exactly a bastion of pro-war or neo-conservative sympathies) Bartle Bull explains: "There are countries that do not matter very much to the rest of the world. Rwanda is one tragic example and its case illustrates the immorality of a completely pragmatic foreign policy. But Iraq, the world’s axial country since the beginning of history and all the more important in the current era for probably possessing the world’s largest reserves of oil, is no Rwanda. Nor do two or three improvised explosive devices a day, for all the personal tragedy involved in each casualty, make a Vietnam. Three and a half years after the start of the insurgency, most of the big questions in Iraq have been resolved. The country is whole. It has embraced the ballot box. It has created a fair and popular constitution. It has avoided all-out civil war. It has not been taken over by [...]
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