From Vanity Fair, a death in the family: Having volunteered for Iraq, Mark Daily was killed in January by an I.E.D. Dismayed to learn that his pro-war articles helped persuade Daily to enlist, Christopher Hitchens measures his words against a family's grief and a young man's sacrifice; and the People vs. the Profiteers: Americans working in Iraq for Halliburton spin-off KBR have been outraged by the massive fraud they saw there. Dozens are suing the giant military contractor, on the taxpayers' behalf. Whose side is the Justice Department on? Regrets only? Kanan Makiya spent years in exile advocating the overthrow of Saddam Hussein. The war he supported brought about an Iraq he never imagined. From military disaster to moral high ground: In a democracy, says Tony Judt, war should always be the last resort—“to jaw-jaw,” as Winston Churchill reminded Dwight D. Eisenhower, “is always better than to war-war”. An excerpt from Reality Show: Inside the Last Great Television News War by Howard Kurtz.
