I've been trying to read as much as I can recently about the Iraq War, to try and get a handle on things- why it happened, how it went so wrong, what will be the consequences... It's been four years now since the invasion, and given that most of 2002 was spent getting ready for this thing, that means nearly half a decade we've been living with Iraq. In all that time, I'm not sure I've read anything that's left me so disturbed and disgusted as George Packer's latest article in the New Yorker. It's long, but everybody should read it. It's just about the capstone on every previous account illuminating the damage done to good people by the arrogant ideologues and fantasists who have presided over this catastrophe.