If you have a few minutes

The NYTimes has a series Flash presentations from CJ Chivers and Joao Silva who are embedded with the Marines stationed in Karma, a small town outside Fallujah.

I watched the last two and then skipped back to the first. If you want to know about life in Anbar, just check the difference in the reporter's tone from the first to the last. His voice goes flat. The facts become increasingly small.

Also: Another reporter returns to Baghdad and tells of the change.