Breakthrough in Baghdad

"Writer Jackson Diehl of WaPo gets it right today. He says the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall was huge, but "a smaller, more complicated yet still thrilling breakthrough in Baghdad: the passage by the Iraqi parliament of a law allowing national elections to go forward in January."

The writer explains: "Painfully, haltingly but steadily, Iraq’s political leaders are building the Middle East’s first genuine Arab democracy. It’s not finished yet, and, yes, it could still fall apart. But the election law puts another big stone in place. If the vote and formation of the government go forward next year without the fraud or chaos we’ve seen in Iran and Afghanistan, Iraq will have, in its own way, breached a political wall -- and, just maybe, opened the way to a new era."

Somehow I think Diehl knows why so many others in the news business didn't recognize the importance of Iraq's step forward."
IraqPundit