Here's a Strategy Page analysis on how al Qaeda has been defeated by, among other things, the Internet.
Power Line Blog's John Hinderaker on the double standard on conflict of interest at the New York Times.
The New York Post's Deborah Orin on the Harvard Alumni Association's $636-a-night trip to North Korea. The HAA cautions that there's some reading material you shouldn't bring along.
Stephen Hayes's Weekly Standard piece on the CIA's war on the Bush White House. Guess on whose side the mainstream media are fighting.
Critics of the Bush administration have been criticizing it for "unilateralism." But, as Fred Hiatt of the Washington Post points out, the United States has been engaged in multilateralism on many fronts—Iran, North Korea, Burma, Darfur—with no success, at least yet. The purveyors of conventional wisdom for some reason seem to suppose that if we could just get France and a few others on our side, we could solve all our problems. Hiatt notes that that hasn't proved so easy. And by the way, why do these CW-niks suppose that France carries such great geopolitical weight or moral authority?
Dennis Ross, in the Washington Post, calls for direct U.S. involvement in talks with Iran. But, as he admits, the prospects for persuading the Iranian mullahs to stop their nuclear program are not good. And he suggests that if joining the multilateral talks doesn't work, we will most likely have to resort to "what inevitably will be a difficult, messy use of force once again." That's considerably more hawkish than what I hear coming out of the administration at the moment.
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