IRAQ

is totally fucked as we all know. There's this writer Nir Rosen who is really good. He had an insightful piece in The Atlantic last year called If America Left Iraq. Hopefully the situation will change to justify a follow-up piece called "When America Leaves Iraq." He recently published a suuuuper long piece in The Boston Review that I've started reading called "Anatomy of a Civil War."Anyway, listen to the show from Monday the 27th and you'll hear his take on the situation with is fucking depressing as fuck. Here's a highlight:

NIR ROSEN: There is no solution. We’ve destroyed Iraq and we’ve destroyed the region, and Americans need to know this. This isn’t Rwanda where we can just sit back and watch the Hutus and Tutsis kill each other, and be like wow this is terrible should we do something? We destroyed Iraq. There was no civil war in Iraq until we got there. And there was no civil war in Iraq, until we took certain steps to pit Sunnis against Shias. And now it is just too late.

and

NIR ROSEN: Troop withdrawal, if I was an American, then I would want troop withdrawal, because why are Americans dying in Iraq? Every single American who dies in Iraq, who is injured in Iraq, dies for nothing. He didn’t die for freedom, he didn’t die to defend his country, he died to occupy Iraq.

Here is the link to the transcript, and a link to a 28 MB mp3 of the hour long show.