They’ve just declared that the air above them – for 60 km – is a weapons-free zone. No, I’m not making that up.
SONTAG AWARD NOMINEE: “TEN YEARS from now, will we be looking back asking how the United States could have thought that an unprovoked, preventive war on Iraq could succeed when the signs of danger were so clear and ominous? How the impossibility of accomplishing the mission through air power would lead levels of American casualties not seen since the Vietnam War? How an oil shock and deficit spending for war would plunge the United States and world economies into a major recession? How an administration so focused on getting rid of Saddam failed to create a workable policy to shape a post-Saddam Iraq?” – Karen J. Alter, Boston Globe.
The Dish 