March 22, 2005

Mud-Level Diplomacy

Thunder 6 tells a moving story of "mud-level diplomacy" in Iraq:

If you took a cursory glance at our reconstruction efforts in Iraq you would probably be blinded by the vast sums being invested in the hobbled infrastructure. It is a necessary step, the global version of the "you break it, you buy it" philosophy. But the future of Iraq doesn’t rest on these repairs alone. In fact if you were to focus on the "big picture" you would surely miss the mud level diplomacy that is slowly binding the destiny of our two nations. A perfect example is the story of Hawdah, a brave Iraqi girl whose life briefly intersected our own time here in Baghdad.