Life in Baghdad (not Cairo)

June 6, 2006

The sheer number of blogs tends to be what the media finds fascinating.. To me it is more interesting to think about the real generic differences between them. One variety of blog I think of as the "clearinghouse" blog. In these cases there is a personality that acts as a filter for the information out there on the internet. I am a compulsive reader of Andrew Sullivan's Daily Dish not because I agree with everything he says, but because I appreciate his humane and open personality.. and for the threads of conversation that he picks up, along with the links to sources I never would have found.

Today Sullivan posted some paragraphs from a blogger in Baghdad.. After all the mounting bad news, this I found more depressing somehow than everything else. It is a snapshot of what the US is up against.. that is, a version of Islam that has gone very wrong. I don't know how it could be put better or more bluntly than this native of Baghdad.. I fear also that these are the forces we have strengthened by our actions..