10 November 2008

Today Baghdad experienced its highest violence death toll in months from three separte bombings in the north end of the city.

The first thought that hit me was, ah ha, the bad guys are already feeling their oats through expectations of a more compliant US regime and early American troop exits.  Maybe?  And maybe not.

It is something that will bear watching, though.  Politicians are famous for disregarding forecasts of probable cause and effect.  They even ignore proven cause and effect if it doesn't meet their personal expectations, requirements and spoken views.  Which all reinforces that perception is more important than fact, and boy oh boy, do we ever do the perception thing.  Politicians speak and media reports - or criticizes, depending on their own perceptive proclivities.

Let us see what happens.