Welcome Political Cover  —  When President Bush insisted that the Iraq Study Group would not provide cover for the White House to chart a "graceful exit" of American troops, he was missing the whole point.  The much-anticipated report from the bipartisan panel is precisely about political cover.

Will Iraq Study Group's Plan Work on the Battlefield?  —  The military recommendations issued yesterday by the Iraq Study Group are based more on hope than history and run counter to assessments made by some of its own military advisers.  —  Ever since the invasion of Iraq in 2003 …

The Iraq Study Group Report  —  As most folks are aware by now, I've posted a HTML version of the Iraq Study Group Report here.  Why?  Because a monolithic PDF document is rather unwieldy, and makes it difficult for bloggers to comment on particular sections of the document and refer their readers to that exact section.

Pearl Harbor survivors meet for last time  —  PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii - With their number quickly dwindling, survivors of Pearl Harbor will gather Thursday one last time to honor those killed by the Japanese 65 years ago, and to mark a day that lives in infamy.

What Rumsfeld's Critics Don't Get  —  Many Iraq war supporters greeted the resignation of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld with a sigh of relief, if not a quiet cheer.  —  Neoconservatives like the Weekly Standard's Bill Kristol and war historian Frederick Kagan began clamoring …