on the road, part 1

As regular readers know, I’m on vacation. Till mid-October, posting will be irregular, infrequent, and not pegged to up-to-the minute events.

If you’re in need of sustenance, check out some of these links:

Back Talk, where the casualty count in Iraq is measured scrupulously as a means of determining the results of the surge—and where Engram provides the logical evidence that Al Qaeda in Iraq is a huge factor in our troubles there (contrary to what you hear from the intellectually lazy and/or politically insecure members of the MSM).

Martin Kramer on the Middle East, a treasure trove of up-to-the minute geopolitical/political news links, among other valuable links and essays.

Arts and Letters Daily—the website I cannot do without.