If you’ve been looking for a good summary of scholarly opinion on the political future of Iraq, you could do a lot worse than this post by Marc Lynch.
Warning: the conclusions derived are, for the most part, not good. But they’re thorough and well-written.
UPDATE: Also, this thorough explanation of whywaterboarding is torture and therefore both immoral and useless should be considered required reading.
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THERE! ARE! FOUR! LIGHTS!
I always wanted to see that scene go:
“How many lights do you see?”
“Four.”
“I say there are five.”
“OK, sure. They’re your freaking lights, man.”
“…now I say there are four again.”
“OK, I’m easy. Four it is. Is this all they do for fun on Cardassia?”
“………….yes.”
Regarding waterboarding, I thought this NPR story might be interesting (not sure how to post links in comments, sorry):
http://www.npr.org/blogs/talk/2007/11/waterboarding_is_exactly_as_mu_1.html