In Syria, the sectarian atrocities will commence shortly
Atrocities are tactical, deployed to shore up loyalty. Moments like this are when they are used
Hitch 1949-2011
Christopher Hitchens wrote like a polymath on a bender and his bombast was a pure reading pleasure
The official end of the Iraq debacle
A bad idea, but it will incubate like a latent virus in right-wing circles and return one day
A Savage War of Peace by Alistair Horne
The best book about the 9/11 attacks and war in Iraq, though it is about France in 1950s Algeria
Liberal hawk Bill Keller changes his mind on the Iraq war
But the former New York Times executive editor still misses the main reason to have opposed the war
Osama bin Laden still free 3,514 days later
What is most astonishing is that there is no public pressure whatsoever to capture him
Another dinosaur nears the end, this time in Yemen
Yemen is a hard place to govern but Ali Abdullah Saleh has done a poor job of it all the same