The LA Times puts it in high relief just now, asking, "Is Maliki's corruption worth American lives?"
It's the same story from Afghanistan, "Corruption rife in Afghanistan-President [Karzai]".
The 'forces of order' have strong enemies - willing to kill 59 schoolchildren with a ball bearings bomb this week - and weak allies.
The Weekly Summary from Iraq is ... too depressing.
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
The "War on Terror", uh, Corruption, Drugs, and Illiteracy
