It's Worse Than You Think

Bucking the Orwellian trend of bowing to the administration's pressures to report only good news from Iraq, Newsweek have published a very interesting article about Iraq. The title says it all: It's Worse Than You Think.

Except, it's not - it's pretty much exactly what you'd think if you didn't let yourself be forcefed the falsely optimistic stories that cloud the true facts. Iraq is in an awful state. Afghanistan, its forgotten ancestor, is likewise in an awful state. There is no end in sight, and things are only getting worse.