Billmon: Groundhog Day

As it happens, I've been spending the third anniversary of the launch of Operation Clusterfuck reading The Assassin's Gate, George Packer's historical apologia for being part of (his words) a "tiny, insignificant camp of ambivalently pro-war liberals."

I could think of a few other choice -- and more accurate -- descriptions, but that's beside the point.

The point is that while I haven't even gotten to the actual invasion yet, Packer's book already has provided a quasi-hallucinatory reminder of what the past three years have been like -- i.e. a seemingly endless spin on the Karmic wheel reserved for those who don't -- or can't -- learn from the past.