The New York Review of Books is a magazine that I've always wanted to have a squiz at, but I was never motivated enough to look for their web site. Well, it turns out that they have a spiffing content-filled extravaganza. This fornight's edition includes such essays as The Vanishing Case for War:
The invasion and conquest of Iraq by the United States last spring was the result of what is probably the least ambiguous case of the misreading of secret intelligence information in American history. Going to war was not something we were forced to do and it certainly was not something we were asked to do. It was something we elected to do for reasons that have still not been fully explained.
