What About the Good News?

Sara Mead notes UNICEF's curiously tone-deaf press release touting such successes in Iraq as "universal salt iodization (to prevent iodine deficiency disorders), reduction of iron-deficiency anaemia and fortification of locally produced wheat flour with iron and folic acid." Preschooling facilities, however, remain inadequate. That and the country is devolving into brutal ethnosectarian slaughter.

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