The keyboard legions of Blogistan, entranced as they are with the “upbeat” news coming out of Iraq, have probably ignored these statements coming from Washington’s own proconsul in Baghdad. After all, he was only quoted in the New York Times and not Fox Snews: That at least some senior officials in Washington understand the gravity of the situation seems clear from remarks made at the Foreign Press Center in Washington two weeks ago by Zalmay Khalilzad, who arrives in Baghdad this week to begin as Mr. Negroponte’s successor. In his remarks, Mr. Khalilzad abandoned a convention that had bound senior … Continue reading Civil War