Victor Davis Hanson writes about the death of the postmodernist dream.

Ralph Peters writes about the latest treasonous leak of a classified document.

Katrina vanden Heuvel says we need a new strategy in Afghanistan. Essentially, she wants us to get our troops out and allow negotiations to begin between the Taliban, President Karzai, and the Pakistanis. Of course, once our troops are out, the Taliban will negotiate right up until the point when Karzai is forced to flee (having previously made a secret deal with the Pakistanis to cease their operations inside Pakistan so long as the Pakistanis help them deal with Karzai).

North Korea severs all ties with South Korea. Since they have a long history of bellicose statements and provocative actions, it is impossible to predict whether or not this is really a significant action by the North Koreans.