Wretchard Amongst the Cockroach Men

Moving right along from our previous post, we next highly recommend a fine essay posted yesterday by Wretchard on his Belmont Club blog. One of the best commentators in the blogosphere, Wretchard's entries have been a little weak of late (maybe he has a day job, too), but yesterday's piece, Forward Together, relates the tale of the Cockroach Men of the Phillipines (Wretchard is actually a native Phillipino) and uses it to riff on America's evolving battle plan against Iraq's batallions of religious and ethnic terrorists in places like Baghdad. The essay is vintage Wretchard, a classic piece of vintage British-style storytelling that has a point to make but offers interesting diversions along the way.