Jeff Jacoby has some scenes from the jihad.

Ralph Peters says the Arabs in Iraq are failing to create a viable democracy (although Kurdish Iraqis are succeeding) and it may be necessary to allow the new Iraqi Army to stage a coup and set up a military government in order to stabilize the country.

The New York Times has obtained some more classified information. This time, it is a slide used in a PowerPoint presentation during a classified briefing that shows Iraq sliding towards chaos. It seems to me that the leaker has to be a military officer. My guess is that more and more people inside the Pentagon are becoming disillusioned with the mission in Iraq and are hoping to get the policy changed, or the Secretary of Defense fired, or both.

Meanwhile, in Afghanistan, NATO continues to battle with the Taliban.

RealClearPolitics has the Democrats up six seats in the race for control of the Senate. There is also some new polling data on some key House races, according to this Reuters article, that also looks good for the Democrats.