LETTER FROM A MARINE — it’s a must-read.

UPDATE: More thoughts from military bloggers here. And read this, too. And this.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Here’s a link-rich roundup on the subject, with this observation:

This is an information war; just as Al-Jazeera didn’t play the Italian or CARE snuff film murders and nobody showed the pictures of the horror we stopped in Falluja, and just as the pornographic obsession with Abu Ghraib dominated media, this will become a way to weaken the American center of gravity of public support. This is a warfare tactic as surely as cryptography use or artillery employment.

I wish that wasn’t true.