Insurgent attacks have reached their lowest levels since August 2003, meaning the attacks have dropped off by 90% since 2007. Army Maj. Gen. David G. Perkins has said that there averaged 130 attacks per day just last year. That number is now down to about 10 a day, with high profile attacks occurring every 4 days or so. Perkins also said that the sectarian violence that often made Iraq “spin out of control” has largely been subdued, which is critical to the downturn in violence in general.
I am merely wondering why there has not been a greater focus on the part of the media to reporting these drastic improvements. It seems to me that all you hear from the talking heads such as Lou Dobbs is how it is about time the US is pulling out of Iraq and on the other side you hear Bill O’Reilly saying that President Obama’s plan to leave Iraq is “cowardly”. The facts of the issue alone are enough to be happy about, and probably enough to justify the withdrawal plan laid out by the Obama administration. If these statistics were made more public then perhaps there would not be so many people opposed to the said withdrawal plan.
