Contributed by: filbert Friday, July 20 2007 @ 04:19 PM CST
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.