Professor Juan Cole offers a reality based assessment of the present situation in Iraq, as it relates to the Iraqi people:
All this talk about security improvements in Iraq distracts everybody from the real and continuing dangers of living there. Friends of mine are still being killed, wounded and kidnapped, and living in fear remains the norm. Before the surge the violence was unimaginable, now it is only horrible. How we (and especially the media) can let McCain and Lieberman obfuscate and declare victory is shameful.
