The General's Letter

Hope has indeed been rekindled. Especially with the bad guys now over 20,000 confirmed dead and a pile of as-yet-unconfirmed dead bad guys likely out there.

Bhutto And The War For Pakistan

Three analyses of the recent unrest in Pakistan - here, here, and here - are worth reading, notably with regard to the seamier side of Benazir Bhutto, so often portrayed in martyr-esque language in the MSM. Also worth reading is this examination of contradictory accounts of how she got killed and the question of why she wasn't better protected.

Roggio On Bhutto Killing

Check out Bill Roggio's look at Benazir Bhutto's assassination.

CIA's NIE Needs To Be DOA

The recent controversy over the CIA in effect saying Iran stopped developing N-B-C weaponry brings this needed examination of the agency's credibility on Middle Eastern war matters. Hopefully one of the Agency's most typical members, Valerie Plame, will be called out and ruined for being the ultimate liar, as proven by at least two Senate investigations of her and her loudmouthed husband "Ambassador" Joe Wilson.

Al Qaida Sez "We're Done In Iraq"

Interesting. Of course it screams, "Hit 'em harder," since that's how one finishes the job.