Over at Teekay’s

David Rieff, while always a lucid observer, can be an exasperating writer because he confounds expectations of consistency. Having championed an impassioned liberal interventionism during the wars in former Yugoslavia, he today appears considerably more skeptical about the possibilities of outside involvement, humanitarian or otherwise, in such conflicts. Whatever one may think of his prolific output, every once in a while he writes something that is just utterly brilliant. One such piece is his review of the Phillips and Diamond books on Iraq in the 1 August issue of the Nation, titled No Exit Strategy. Go there and read it — right now.