Ralph Peters, who was an intelligence officer in the Army for many years, says the documents released by Wikileaks are mostly low-level stuff, generally classified as "Confidential", with a few at the "Secret" level, and nothing classified as "Top Secret". But the documents do tell the story of a war that cannot be won by continuing on the present course. I agree. We cannot win with a corrupt and illegitimate Afghan government, a corrupt and incompetent Afghan army and police and, most importantly, we cannot win with elements of the Pakistani government and security service actively working to aid our enemies.

Richard Cohen also believes the war cannot be won, and we should get out of Afghanistan.

Michael Gerson, on the other hand, believes the Taliban will not accept any of our fundamental conditions for entering into peace talks unless we are defeating them on the battlefield. He also points out that ceding any territory to the Taliban means women in those areas will suffer a return to virtual slavery.

House Democrats representing "Rust Belt" states feel betrayed by their leadership on the cap-and-trade portion of the energy bill.

Pat Buchanan says the real story behind the NAACP, Sherrod, Tea Party race controversies is the fact that President Obama is losing working-class, white America. Those voters, many of whom voted for Hillary Clinton in the primaries, were crucial for Obama in 2008. I suspect many of them will vote Republican this November and, if things do not turn around for the economy, will vote for the GOP candidate for President in 2012.

George Will, in a speech to the members of the Cato Institute, says Americans are not a "state-broken people" (a phrase from George Orwell).

The NFL continues to get serious about the ramifications of concussions by posting a stark warning in all locker rooms. It is a long overdue, but necessary step to raise awareness among players and coaches. Unfortunately, as a lover of American football, I fear that more and more data will reveal that the constant banging of heads that is an inherent part of the game is just as damaging in the long term as are the more spectacular hits that lead to concussions.