update
I've just been reading War in Iraq - a week of war. I'd planned to comment on the growing chaos in northern Iraq (apart from the reporting chaos of CNN briefly deciding that Tikrit was a southern Iranian city) and the situation with Turkey and the Kurds.

I'm going to postpone that and think very hard for a few hours about the Russian analysis.

Perhaps we could all meditate on one Eric Bush, an English guy living in France who is changing his surname to Buisson because he does not want to share it with Bush.