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Scenes From a Nasty, Brutish, Long War

By Christian Parenti, The Nation. Posted February 27, 2004.


After seeing the fighting firsthand and spending time with both the resistance and the US military, one observer realizes that the conflict has settled into a lopsided and contradiction-fraught stalemate.

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