"Two very different issues"

"How will [Blackwater's loss of its license] impact the diplomats and those trying to rebuild Iraq?" asked Dan Damon.

"That's two very different issues," the correspondent (Sykes I think his name was) responded from Baghdad.

His point? That the diplomats rarely travel, in the first place, and that they aren't actually reconstructing anything when they do. Most of the reconstruction work, he said, is being done by Army Engineers. If the diplomats don't drive around, not much impact will be felt on reconstruction efforts.

He didn't mention that Iraq is getting so safe, post-surge, that heavily armed guards just aren't needed by diplomats anymore... funny, that.