The U.S. commander in Afghanistan calls the situation there 'serious', and is looking for more of everything.

George Will says it is time to get out of Afghanistan.

Anthony Cordesman, who served on the panel that is advising the new U.S. commander in Afghanistan, says we can avoid defeat, but only if we provide the men and money necessary. He hints that President Obama may not be willing to do what is necessary to win.

Fred Kagan gives us a history of the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan as an argument against making comparisons between our involvement and the Soviet's failure.

The new ruling party in Japan sounds like a bunch of liberal Democrats.

Ralph Peters, himself a former Army intelligence officer, is upset at the AG's plan to investigate our CIA interrogators who wouldn't play nice with our enemies when trying to extract information from them. Peters points out that if our intelligence operatives worry about getting prosecuted by our own government for their actions after the fact they will be much less inclined to work hard and take risks. I wouldn't blame them for holding that attitude.

Of course, this is all part of the larger problem which, as Thomas Sowell points out, is more about the fact that our society at large is growing less willing and able to defend itself from the barbarians.