The majority of Iraq is actually working very well and is getting back on it's feet.It's just pockets of the country that have these problems.
The problem is that where and when things are going well it's not so 'sexy' for the media to report that.Much more interesting to fasten on to the negative and fail to really report on the positive because it is so much more exciting to look at bombs and conflict than looking at schools and hospitals being built.
After all no one has been reporting on the upside in NI have they?But as soon as there are riots the media are there reporting about it as if it had affected the whole of NI when in fact it was only in certain parts of the country.