Well I think this is one of the reminders that we're going to get that just because we declared a moment in time to have occurred last week, of course, with the formal change of the mission in Iraq from a combat mission to something different doesn't mean that there isn't combat still occurring in Iraq and that there are 50,000 US troops still present there and, of course, they're going to come into hostile situations. And I think that's a good reminder that we're going to be seeing more stories like this at a moment of political instability and uncertainty in Iraq. After all there is still no new government that has been formed, and that's very much in the news right now as well.
-- Foreign Policy's Susan Glasser on the death of 2 US soldiers in Iraq last week while speaking on the second hour of the Friday, September 10th broadcast of The Diane Rehm Show (NPR).