Here is another one of my occassional posts on the war in Iraq. It is rare to see good reporting in U.S. media outlets. For one thing, few U.S. reporters speak the Iraqi’s language. This article in the Washington Post is exceptional, because the reporters give voice to the Iraqi soldiers themselves, not just U.S. officers.
“The reconstruction of Iraq’s security forces is the prerequisite for an American withdrawal from Iraq. But as the Bush administration extols the continuing progress of the new Iraqi army, the project in Baiji, a desolate oil town at a strategic crossroads in northern Iraq, demonstrates the immense challenges of building an army from scratch in the middle of a bloody insurgency.”