War
drorzel | August 2, 2006Another email update from Senior Middle East Correspondant Paul Schemm, this time including some stuff that could be read as sort-of positive, if you're a fan of the American presence in Iraq:
The US soldiers obligingly stopped periodically during one patrol and
allowed me to clamber out and talk to people. What they said
surprised me so much that I later sent some of the Sunnis from the
office to the same neighborhood to check it out.
These people wanted the Americans around. They trusted the Americans [...]
Of course, you really need to see it in context to judge, so the full text is below…
drorzel | July 12, 2006There are two main reasons why I don't write a great deal about politics here. The first, and most important, is that I tend not to like the way that I end up sounding when I go off on political topics. The second, only slightly less important, is that I rarely feel like I have anything worthwhile to add to the discussion that a hundred other homebrew pundits won't also say.
This is one of the exceptions. A good friend of mine from college-- the best man at my wedding-- is a journalist working for the French wire services in Baghdad. He sends occasional email updates about what's going on…