DISPATCHES FROM AMERICA
The corpse on the gurney
Although the media are now in rapt discussion about just how "successful" President George W Bush's "surge" has been, the reality is much more grave. After doctoring by Bush's "undertakers", moribund Iraq has a faint glow of life, but it won't just get up and walk away, and neither, it seems, will the United States. - Tom Engelhardt (Jan 18, '08)