Mission Accomplished

From Cursor

'No Going Back' At the end of an in-depth examination in the Boston Review of the dire situation facing millions of displaced Iraqis, Nir Rosen concludes "Iraq's human capital has fled, its intellectuals and professionals, the educated, the moneyed classes, the political elite. They will not return."

In an interview with Spiegel, Seymour Hersh argues that "The surge means basically that, in some way, the president has accepted ethnic cleansing," as historian Roger Owen details how U.S. policy has undermined sectarian cohesion and fostered warlord rivalry and chaos.