WTF Is It Now?!?

A must-read

The Columbia Journalism Review has posted "Into The Abyss," an oral history of journalists covering the Iraq conflict from the beginning to the present. Some of the reading/listening is completely riveting:

And I went in there thinking that this is probably going to be something like what I saw in Afghanistan, which was cheering crowds and people throwing their turbans off, and everybody happy to see the American forces. And that wasn’t the case at all. To me, it looked like we’d pried the doors off a mental institution, and there were a bunch of people standing around with their jaws hanging open. Some people were absolutely horrified, people were crying, some people were cheering, some people were — you could tell how afraid they were. Some people, you could sense that there was emotion that they didn’t want to express, so they didn’t. There was a lot of uncertainty.

There's much more, and I highly recommend it, especially as an antidote to all the simplistic crap we've been fed about the war by The Decider and the rest of his ilk. They're the ones who really need to read it.

--dg

(thanks to Lex for the link)