For those of you who don't regularly check his website, allow me to point you toward the latest addition to Mark Steyn's portfolio of political punditry. He's still packin' punch:

After some particularly vicious bombings of the UN and others, the NGOs mostly fled Iraq in late summer. 'It would be rather sobering,' I wrote in August, 'were Iraq to demonstrate it can get along without them.' And what do you know? It's remarkable how quickly a problem goes away once the people with a vested interest in there being a problem go away.