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William Arkin,

defense analyst and Washington Post blogger, on white phosphorous weapons being used in Iraq: “What I’m sure of is that the use of white phosphorous is not just some insensitive act. It is not just bad P.R. It is the ill thought out and panicked use of a weapon in an illegitimate way. It is a representation of a losing strategy.

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