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This year the Iraq conflict will be as long as World War II. This makes me question and wonder where we are headed and what could possibly be the best remedy now. In history classes the great victorious war of our grandparents to ensure the freedom of the world seemed so long and bloody and full of courage. How will the conflict (congress never declared war) in Iraq be recorded in history - full of bloodshed, uprising, sectarian violence, failure, and limited successes. Both will have covered the same time span and yet we are still stuck in Iraq attempting to clean up the mess.

Today I read an article in the New York Times at breakfast in which David Leonhardt of Economix looks at the ways the $1.2 trillion, spent over the span of the Iraq conflict, could have been better spent. Check it out:

Until last Wednesday, the government always distinguished between a government employee leaking information and someone outside the government receiving that leak. That's why it's legal for a journalist to say "An anonymous government official said..." It was the responsibility of the government, not journalists and citizens, to keep classified information secret.

Not any more. On Wednesday a Federal Judge ruled that two members of the American Israel Public Action Committee, or AIPAC, could be tried merely for receiving classified information. If other justices (say, our supreme court) interpret this decision broadly, then anybody who falls upon a state secret could be thrown in jail. This is especially dangerous for journalists, who rely on leaks every day to get the news to the public.