Nibras Kazimi has a column in today's (Thursday January 25, 2007) New York Sun titled "Turnaround in Baghdad."  His thesis is that we are making real progress in Iraq:The wider Sunni insurgency - the groups beyond Al Qaeda - is being slowly, and surely, defeated.  Kazimi is a skeptic about the reputation of Geneeral Petraeus, seeing severe flaws in the execution of his two previous assignments in Iraq, but nevertheless thinks that he may reap the benefit of progress that is already evident.  He thinks the turning point came in the fall:Last October, my sources began telling me about rumblings among the insurgent strategists suggesting that their murderous endeavor was about to run out of steam.Read the whole thing.  Is there any other evidence to support Kazimi's scenario?  We here at AT have been pointing to the remarkable surge in the value of the Iraqi dinar that started at about the same time and has continued right through today.  Since the...(Read Full Post)