WELL, IT WASN'T WORKING AS JUST ONE IRAQ:

Two Nations in One: A roundup of the past two weeks' good news from Iraq. (ARTHUR CHRENKOFF, October 25, 2004, Wall Street Journal)

There are two Iraqs.

The one we more often see and read about is a dangerous place, full of exploding cars, kidnapped foreigners and deadly ambushes. There, reconstruction is proceeding at a snail's pace, frustration boils over, and tensions--political, ethnic, religious--crackle in the air like static electricity before a storm.

The other Iraq is a once prosperous and promising country of 24 million, slowly recovering from the physical and moral devastation of totalitarianism. It's a country whose people are slowly beginning to stand on their own feet, grasp the opportunities undreamed of only two years ago, and dream of catching up on three decades of lost time.

Before he went into the witness protection program, John Edwards used to tell us there were two Americas--so we've succeeded in making Iraq just like us.

Posted by Orrin Judd at October 25, 2004 9:22 AM