Ralph Peters writes about 12 myths of 21st Century war.

Why are the current crop of anti-war films doing so poorly at the box office, despite the fact that polling data indicates the Iraq War is unpopular? Here is one man's opinion. I agree with the argument that people want to see stories about heroes. But I also believe it is because the people in Hollywood are not only allowing their own political bias to cloud their judgement, but that they also fail to see the truth behind the poll numbers. Americans are not unhappy with the Iraq War because we are fighting it. They are unhappy because they perceive we are not winning it.

In Pakistan, the Army is losing ground to the Islamists, even while they spend a great deal of their energy on silencing opposition to President Musharraf.

A Federal panel has recommended that thousands of inmates incarcerated for crack cocaine offenses have their sentences reduced. Meanwhile, a study says that a significant percentage of African-Americans, born into middle-class families, have dropped out of the middle-class. Gee, I wonder if the crack epidemic might have had something to do with that?

Some more thoughts on why we might be looking at a looming recession.