Rebuilding Continues

This story ran yesterday but is worth noting:

US plans to create a new Iraqi army have suffered a setback after hundreds of recruits resigned.
The army’s first 700-man battalion lost 300 troops who were within weeks of being deployed, Pentagon officials say.
The battalion is the only one trained so far for what is eventually hoped to be a 40,000-strong force.

This isn’t the type of trend that makes it easy to turn control of Iraq back to the Iraqis.
Funny I haven’t heard much about this in the liberal, everything-is-crumbling-in-Iraq media.