ARTICLE: Compromise on Oil Law in Iraq Seems to Be Collapsing, By JAMES GLANZ, New York Times, September 13, 2007

Further sad proof that Iraq's dissolution is accelerating.

Still, if, like me, you saw this as inevitable, then the faster we get there, the faster the individual regions can stand up on their own economically, which to me is a precondition for later political re-integration--thus the strategic tool that is Development-in-a-Box™.

(Thanks: Dan Hare)