A Guest contribution

 I hesitate to write about the ongoing war.  It is very easy to speculate about how it will end in disaster, and very hard to know at this point how it will actually turn out.  I have begun an unrelated post, but meanwhile, here is an excellent article by Anatole Lieven of the Quincy Project on what this war is doing to the standing of the United States in the world.  It builds on what I said the week the war broek out.