Baghdad Comes Alive

For someone who has returned periodically to Baghdad during these past four and a half years of war, there has been one constant: it only gets worse. (snip) For the first time, however, returning to Baghdad after an absence of four months, I can actually say that things do seem to have gotten better, and in ways that may even be durable.
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