Three To Read

Here are three great blog posts you should read.

Tim Lambert at Deltoid analyses the good news from Iraq on electricity production, using Arthur Chrenkoff's posts on the subject and official figures.

Echidne of the Snakes takes apart an incredibly dumb op-ed by David Brooks in which he tries to revise Marx and make the world's woes the fault of latte-sipping liberals with...gasp...education. Echidne:"The wealth was there first, David."

Stirling Newberry tackles Afghanistan's transformation into a narco-state and the lesson that should be learned for Iraq: you can't impose a structure without an infrastructure.