Maliki’s victory

Bill Roggio posts this photo from Reuters today at The Weekly Standard Blog;

Iraqi Army applicants wait outside the army recruitment center in Basra, 550 km (340 miles) south of Baghdad on April 1, 2008. About 1,000 men from the southern cities of Basra, Amarah, and Nasiriyah trooped to the recruiting center in Basrah to apply to be government soldiers.

Then Roggio makes the characteristically astute observation;

Shouldn’t journalist ask the simple question of why Iraqis in the South are flocking to join the Iraqi Army if Sadr dealt it such a decisive defeat? Perhaps the Iraqi perceptions of the operation are different from our own.

Category: Politics