[Promoted by DHinMI: only the stupid or the naive fail to recogonize the difference between supposed good intentions and good results, and how the first so often doesn't lead to the second. This is an great case where everything was done right, and the result was disastrous.]
No, this isn't an April Fool's diary. This is a short, but I think important, diary whose main purpose is to get you to read this article from the New York Times:
Iraqi Widow Saves Her Home, but Victory Is Brief
By EDWARD WONG
Published: March 30, 2007
It is a personal story that illustrates some very important-- yet unspoken-- considerations about the surge. It's a story in which everyone does what they should: the US Army, the Iraqi Army, the neighbors, and the Baghdad citizen-- soon to be the Baghdad victim. I don't know how long it will be available before disappearing into subscription land, so please click. (Link changed to a permanent one - MissLaura)
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