I just started thanks to seeing the link in a few places. Michael Yon is an author spending a great deal of time in Iraq, visiting the parts of Iraq we never hear about in the MSM, hearing things from Iraqis we never hear in the MSM.

An Iraqi. A Kurd. A Yezidi. A village Headman. Whatever the label, more than forty years after his birth, this man came home. Only now, after the latest war, does Mr. Qatou finally have confidence in the peace, after more than a half century of life lived under orders or under sentence.

This seemed like the moment to ask the question, “What do you think of the United States?”

“We cry when America loses one soldier. We pray for the soldiers every night.”

Many Kurds had expressed the same sentiment. One had said poetically: “For every drop of American blood, we shed one thousand Kurdish tears.”

Make Michael’s blog a regular read. It will do your resolve good to hear some good news from someone that is actually there, walking among the people.

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