Doing well

I don't have much to say, but our internet has been down for 5 days, so I feel I should say something...

There has been a profound and noticable shift the last 6 months here in Baghdad. The Iraqi security forces are doing the vast majority of the work. The Government still struggles with getting things done, I think because they are still jockeying for positions in the new Iraq. The corruption is so much a part of their system it's almost immpossible to imagine it ever getting much better. Still, corruption was (and is) a part of many, many former Soviet Bloc nations as well as South American democracies, and I'd be pleased with an Iraq that resembled any of those nations.

Writer's Block...

more later I guess