Good News from Iraq

Well, maybe "good" is too strong a word.

"There are some parts of the Sunni Triangle where the security right now, frankly, is not that bad. In parts of Diyala Province, some parts of Salahuddin Province, [the situation] is not all blood and fire and destruction in all places every day."

-- a senior State Department official in a Pentagon briefing Jan. 4, quoted in The New Republic