...Austin Bay, just added to the blogroll to replace the US 1st Infantry Division's website, as the soldiers of the Big Red One (a unit with a tradition that includes such little contretemps as Omaha Beach and the Huertgen Forest - just how on earth did the Iraqi insurgents and their media cheerleaders think they could win?) have now left Iraq for a well-earned rest. Austin also served in Iraq. This intelligent, urbane, articulate Texan (now there's a phrase to give the average Independent reader a bit of a wobbly feeling) has done more than any other blogger to elucidate the issues at stake in the war and to set out how the Allies, for all their mistakes, are winning it.