The Least We Can Do ...

The chasm that divides us on Iraq is profound. But there's one thing you'd think the fiercest voices on both sides could agree on: asylum for the Iraqis who worked closely with the US and now seem certain to get killed for it. A USAID official came up with a list of the 800 most urgent cases and so far we've only managed to cough up visas for 10 of them.

(ed.note: To be clear, this isn't about sharks like Chalabi and folks like that. It's translators, assistants -- ordinary folks.)