Truly Must Read

If you read James Wolcott, you know how good he is, but here he chooses excellent writing of others for you.

A small enticement.

"Both the Russians and the English lost everything to Afghanistan, but it doesn't have to end that way for us. After all, the same thing happened to us in Vietnam, our first Afghanistan, but we survived it. True, our economy was never the same. Undeniably, it replaced an American Century with postmodern alienation and ironic detachment. But if those estimates are correct and this war is costing a mere billion bucks a month, we ought to tally our dead, write up our losses, and count ourselves lucky to still be called a superpower."

Is the US a superpower? It looks less and less like one daily and Bushco is doing everything they can to make sure it isn't.