Monday, August 03, 2009



Shrinking coalition watch

In 2003, the US invaded Iraq at the head of a "coalition of the willing". Over the intervening years, the coalition has shrunk and shrunk, as various countries have got sick of dying for America and pulled out. And now, following the Iraqi Parliament's eviction of the UK on Wednesday and the withdrawal of the last Australian troops on Friday, it has finally shrunk to a coalition of one...