Bubble burst

While most of America is preoccupied with debate style points, I see this morning that suicide bombers have now penetrated the Green Zone in Baghdad. The news arrives just as I'm finishing William Langewiesche's brilliant Atlantic piece, which contrasts the chaotic scene of Baghdad with the relative calm in the Zone's bubble. (His digression on the way people drive there is just one of his memorable observations.) If you can't read that story online, there's an interview with the author too.