Dark days

Forget the Iraq-Vietnam comparisons. Anyone else get worried when the blockade-North-Korea talk starts sounding like something out of the Cuban Missile Crisis?

Sorry for the long absence. I offer an eye-opening piece from the BBC and a Guardian photographer, who spend six weeks with the 101st Airborne in Iraq. Even where the photog doesn't quite know how things are supposed to work, he still gets the idea that counter-insurgency operations aren't supposed to look like this.

Sadly, they do.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/video/page/0,,1927660,00.html