Michael Yon has another great post about the situation Diyala Province and operation Arrowhead Ripper. You can read about it here.
Seeing “God is Great” written on the Iraqi flag might provoke some to protest “Why did we come here just to stand up a country who would write such things on their flag?” But I sat there in that meeting, which was completely civil and professional, and I thought about another flag, the one flying over South Carolina. Some people call that flag ”heritage,” while others call it “hateful,” “painful” and “demeaning.” And today in that meeting, I thought about the descendents of slaves who are now top military commanders in the American Army, and in that moment I knew that Iraq could make it.