September 01, 2009
Meanwhile, in Iraq...
Smart Iraq-watchers are a lot more worried by tensions in northern Iraq than by car bombs in Baghdad, which -- if we are to believe Nir Rosen (and I, for one, do) -- lack strategic significance compared with Arab-Kurd issues. My Palo Alto drinking buddy JP Schnapper-Casteras -- whose girlfriend is even more badass than he -- is on this story like white on rice.