Further Forward

The Petraeus doctrine:
more resources more intelligently applied further forward

An Iraqi family looks through a bus window before leaving for Baghdad from Damascus, Syria, at the bus station of Saydeh Zeinab, near Damascus November 27,2007. Iraqi government organised a free of charge return trip to encourage Iraqis to go back home.
REUTERS/Khaled Al-hariri

Read Bottomline Upfront on the hundreds of thousand who are returning to Iraq.

Amy Proctor has a surge of posts on the positive progress in Iraq:
Economic Growth and Nightlife
U.S. Casualties at the Lowest Since the Start of the Iraq War
Famous Riverside Park in Baghdad Reopens
6,000 Sunnis make pact with U.S. in Iraq
Murtha?!?