Mostly bad news

Here is some grim reading. Dan Byman and Ken Pollack (both affiliated with my alma mater and the former is also the director of my grad program) have a long article on why the civil war in Iraq is even worse news than you think. Fortunately they have some ideas to make it better.

Belgravia Dispatch has a longish one on just what we should do in Iraq. He goes over a number of options.

This Ralph Peters piece also describes the Mid-East as a steaming pile of doom. It's not that great but he gets giant bonus points for quoting Lovecraft.

If all that is just bringing you down, read about Google developing a healthier version of the delightful It's It, just for the Google campus.