Encouraging Words Out Of Iraq

To borrow a statement Ronald Reagan made about a different war, I suspect things are going better over there than what we are being told.

According to a story in the Washington Times, the U.S. military announced that “an Iraqi ground-forces command will activate in early September, giving the U.S.-backed government direct control over army, police, and border units throughout the country.”

With that, we have yet another development that indicates that progress is indeed being made in Iraq, and further hope that the Iraqi government will be able to stand on its own in the not-too-distant future.

Obviously, from thousands of miles away, I’m no expert on what’s going on on the ground in Iraq. And the possibility always exists, in all lands, that things could take a turn for the worse tomorrow. But for some time now, I’ve wondered if the day will come when the U.S. and Iraqi governments will issue a joint statement saying that the Americans have finished their part of the job and the Iraqis will “take it from here,” catching folks in America totally off guard, because they’ve been told nothing but how badly things are going over there.