Thanks, Tony

Time for a roundup of the past two weeks' good news from Iraq.

Building a democratic federal Iraq is a difficult, and slow, but rewarding process. Those who doubt the swiftness of transition must keep in mind that a state such as Iraq is a cultural, ethnic and linguistic mosaic that was only ever held together by brute force, thus, political speed can kill.

Be sure to scroll down to the end to read about how Iraqis are now turning terrorists in.

Even though it insists on calling them insurgents when they're not, or perhaps because of that, the New York Times, of all places, wonders why it's not much of an insurgency.

"Instead of saying, 'What's the logic here, we don't see it,' you could speculate, there is no logic here," said Anthony James Joes, a professor of political science at St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia and the author of several books on the history of guerrilla warfare. The attacks now look like "wanton violence," he continued. "And there's a name for these guys: Losers."