This NYT story talks about how events overtook the Bush administration's strategy in Iraq. It's a very sobering read.

The ongoing war in Afghanistan has been picked the top Canadian news story for 2006 by the country's newspaper editors and broadcasters. However, I have a small bone to pick with the CP story.

Having something of a thing for snow globes, I noticed this in the NYT. But the wider lesson isn't about snow globes, its about the difference between security theatre and security that works.

The video of Saddam Hussein being taunted by Shiite guards is not going down well with Iraq's Sunni minority, and may be cementing impressions that the Shiite-led government is a sectarian one, claims an NYT analysis.