A report card for post-withdrawal Iraq

An interesting, if US-biased, account. To describe the last two years in Iraq as 'uneven' is crass even by Washington Post standards.

‘They just can’t get it done’: A report card for post-withdrawal Iraq: The country's legal system has "no transparency," Sowell said, and is marked by indications of corruption and incompetence. He said a particularly severe problem is the tens of thousands of Iraqis in prison, including "a high percentage who have never been tried.
"I don't think there's any reason to be real confident of a fair trial or getting any trial at all," he said. "There's no transparency for anyone.''