This is a tip I couldn’t wait to pass on. It’s so rare to find a dissenter from the war – an opponent of the election of George Bush – who thinks clearly and writes well. Most liberals are only good at one or the other. Present company excepted, possibly.

Mark Danner writes for the New Yorker and is on the staff at Berkeley. He writes on foreign affairs. I saw him in a debate on the issue of replacing the president, on the UC cable channel.

It has been clear for several months that the United States is losing its war in Iraq. What remains to be seen is whether Americans will come to realize this fact before the election or after it. The answer may well determine who sits in the White House in late January 2005. But whoever wins on November 2 will be confronted by the stark fact that in a bitter, fragmented country the United States has engaged itself in a guerrilla war that no more admits of a clear and easy resolution than did the war in Vietnam in 1968. And in Iraq, a country poised on the Gulf of Hormuz—the “choke-point” through which more than half of the world’s oil passes, making it the jugular of the industrialized world—the strategic stakes are much greater.

Check out his site. And here’s a link to the article from which I’ve quoted.