THE GOOD AND BAD MIDDLE EAST NEWS

Good Holiday reading over at Mudville. An actually BALANCED review of what is going good and bad in Iraq right now. If only the fucking MSM would be this balanced we might know what is going on. Especially read his report on Ramadi..... Meanwhile, bakshish may bring the entire effort to its knees here at INDC Journal..... I covered the entrenched structure of the chain of bribing that takes place there. This practice, called bakshish, dating back a thousand years or more is covered HERE. This is another one of the historical realities in the Middle East, and as we all know, if you can't trust people not much gets done......Meanwhile the "never covered by MSM" situation in southern Pakistan is brought into focus by Bill Roggio. The Taliban proving once again that terror works.