The scene where a car bomb exploded near a market in eastern Baghdad on Thursday (AP photo by Hadi Mizban) This picture is from "The Jordan Times." What is a total bizarre reality to Baghdad is to realize people are actually milling around where bombs just went off. One would think they would run never to return until emergency crews were finished with the area. It's odd behavior to say the least as if this is common place and it's just time to 'get on' with living and rebuilding after rebuilding after rebuilding. My any chance does this remind anyone of Old Beirut? There is no police. No military. There is questionably a fireperson in the right lower corner of the picture. I just feel like people nod their heads and proceed to walk down the road to their next stop of the day. Could anyone in any big in this country actually think of strolling past this scene as if walking in New York City from Seventh Avenue to Fifth Avenue. There are spectators but there is more interaction with the violence by the Iraqi public than any place else I can remember. People literally are walking upto those vehicles to examine the complete destruction. I don't believe this isn't going to end anytime soon. Add to this the reality an entire American Military Unit has been annihilated in the latest campaign of the USA in Iraq in An Albar Province and realize there comes a time when people have to realize the Coalition Military is not making progress to say the least and more likely losing this initiative in Iraq. The opposition has the 380 tonnes of high explosives Don Rumsfeld neglected to secure after the invasion in the Iraqi Desert.