Educating the west about the rest

Educating the west about the rest
: Salam has a wonderful post today answering snarkers (again). They complain he’s not a typical Iraqi. He never said he was. And then he talks about the real value of this international blogging thing:

…what I want to say is that we seem to have lost the middle ground. When I met Ted Koppel the first time he said that he needed a cultural interpreter. And this is exactly what this blog and the rest of the blogs in the Iraqi Blogosphere, in all its variety, has been providing. The things the reviewer saw as negatives,