Nile Gardiner calls on the British Government to take up the challenge of our times and increase troop levels in Iraq. Sorry, Nile, but that's not bloody likely.

Meanwhile, Moqtada al Sadr has ordered his people to suspend combat operations and has opened up negotiations with the Iraqi Government. While I have found it to be quite difficult to analyze events in Iraq (the internal politics are complicated, to say the least), it seems illogical to believe that Sadr would do such a thing if he thought he was winning.

The remains of an American soldier, missing since 2004, are found.

Richard Holbrooke writes that Americans must be prepared to stay in Afghanistan for a very long time, making the war there the longest war in American history.

Bill Kristol reminds McCain supporters that biography is not enough.

The idea that Al Gore may yet end up as the Democratic Presidential nominee will not die.