If Republicans read this article and follow its advice, they are sure to be doomed.

Jack Kelly writes about how we got to where we are in Iraq. In essence, Donald Rumsfeld and his generals made some very serious mistakes. These were compounded by the CIA and the State Department. Curiously, no one got fired, which is the pattern in the Bush Administration.

Richard Cohen points out that the NYT, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal, all publicly traded companies that have families who control the majority of shares, are in financial trouble, causing Wall Street to demand changes, which Cohen thinks would be detrimental to their mission.

Fatah and Hamas are battling it out in the Palestinian territories. I predict a true civil war in those territories before we see one in Iraq.