Collapse

According to this article, Iraq is on the brink of collapse. This piece in today's Times says pretty much the same thing, just a tad less definatively.

What's interesting is the mass media and aparatchiks in Washington have pretty much sold the "See You in September" line into conventional wisdow...come the end of summer, we'll know if Gen Petraeus's plan has worked.

Right. Has anybody told that to the various insurgent factions in Iraq, I wonder? They seem to be getting more and more violent every single day. Gen. Petreaus can try to surge all he wants, these reports paint a picture of a society in the midst of apparantly irreversible melt down.