Seen on the newswire:
Iraq’s top Shi’ite, Sunni Arab and Kurdish political leaders announced on Sunday they had reached consensus on some key measures seen as vital to fostering national reconciliation.
The agreement by the five leaders was one of the most significant political developments in Iraq for months and was quickly welcomed by the United States, which hopes such moves will ease sectarian violence that has killed tens of thousands.
What’s not clear to me is just how substantial this progress is, in part because of confused reporting, the increased politicization of the issue, and a certain degree of cynicism over the story expected to be told by the White House, and how many times positively-spun stories coming out of the White House have been proven to be oh-so-wrong.
Still, any progress is better than nothing, I suppose.