...And Welcome to It

National Review sent me over to this analysis by the The Belmont Club. They look at the same data the New York Times does, and, for free, give you better analysis. How's that for America, heh?

Among other wonderful little fact checks is the following:

The first thing to notice is that 2,139 of the 2,429 attacks took place in
6 of the 18 provinces. The numbers don't entirely add up in the "Times" graphic
but the discrepancy is small and may be due to errors in assigning some
incidents. The real hotbeds are Baghdad and areas to the northwest -- the
Sunni triangle. By far the greatest density of violence is in Baghdad, where
1,000 attacks have taken place in an 732 kilometers square.<[>

So, ashas been reported, in places more honest the the NYT-two thirds of the country is largely safe, with the great majority of the violence relegated to the slice controlled by the Sunnis, specifically the guys who were benefitting most in a Hussein dictatorship.