“THEY DO NOT WANT THE WATER TO FLOW, IF THE TAP IS TURNED BY PAUL BREMER:” Martin Peretz writes on how the international relief agencies — putting politics ahead of principle, again — are bugging out of Iraq. He notes:

One more telling irony: While the idealistic abandoners of Iraq move on to their safe-haven podiums in Kuwait City and Amman, the entrepreneurial corporations Bechtel and Fluor, drawn to the country by contract for massive construction and oil-field projects, have plans to evacuate no one.

Imagine that.