Atlantic Monthly on Iraq: Boston-based Atlantic Monthly has, as Hub Blog has noted before, a weird policy towards its online content -- getting its print articles online late, then putting only some of its print articles online, and then running a lot of excerpts. But now Atlantic Monthly has done something a little unusual: It has posted two 'preview' articles, both in full, from their upcoming November issue. Go figure. Anyway, they're GREAT articles by James Fallows and Robet D. Kaplan about Iraq and the tremendous burden America is about to shoulder. The articles are long, each pessimistic in their own right, but highly trenchant precisely because they're tough. Hub Blog wonders: Is Atlantic Monthly posting them now, at least in part, because it thinks they might be outdated very soon? Events are moving fast, folks. ... Postscript: The October print issue, parts of which were only recently posted, includes the third installment of "American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center." It's not as good as the first two installments, but it's still superb. Here's an excerpt (argh).
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