GOOD NEWS FROM IRAQ

Soldiers and civilians freshly returned from Iraq are always saying that the situation in Iraq is so far from being like what we see on our TV screens that they hardly recognize it. A good corrective is weekly articles on the good things happening in Iraq - and sometimes, in Afganistan - by Australian blogger Arthur Chrenkoff. Click here for his weekly article in the Wall Street Journal, and here for his excellent blog.

Things are going so much better, in spite of the violence, than we would ever imagine, if we went solely by what our media report. Read Chrenkoff to get an idea.