Kos has some acute reflections on Fallujah and what to do about it now. He’s actually more optimistic than I am, asserting that what he calls the lynch mob was a small group without mass support. (Whether his knowledge is any better than mine — it well might be — I don’t know.)
The post should dispose of any doubts harbored — for example, by the undersigned — about which side Kos is on in the current struggle in Iraq. It’s written entirely from the viewpoint of someone eager to see his country succeed, and gives what I think is good advice toward that end.
It appears that I misconstrued Kos’s hostility to contract fighters as hostility toward the U.S. cause in Iraq, and in the process raised unjustified doubts about Kos’s patriotism. My bad.
Kos Kerfuffle Roundup (UPDATED)
For the last few days I’ve been in the ideological trenches, waging war over this sordid, tawdry little controversy. I have been in multiple comment box battles, and I’ve written e-mails to advertisers (happily with success) to try to get