Item 1: A member of the FreeRepublic site, posting from Baghdad, notes that "
Come to think of it, I haven't heard any explosions in the last couple of days...[*1] "
Item 2:
Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit passes along an e-mail[*2] from
Michael Yon[*3] who is also "in-country": "Wow. There was zero combat reported in Baqubah yesterday. Hard to believe. But I am right here, and that's the way it was."
The contrast with the increasingly shrill political environment here Stateside is offered for your evening's meditation.