Disputes Weaken Efforts to Confront Al Qaeda in Pakistan
The Ongoing War in Afghanistan
Military Repairs Could Cost $100 Billion
Commentary: Pakistan as Focus of War on Terror

North Korea Destroys Cooling Tower
Coalition Urges Torture Ban for National Security
Sri Lanka Makes Gains Against Tamil Tigers

Pakistani Taliban Claims Responsibility for Murder of Peace Committee
Guantanamo Detainees To Seek Justice in US Courts
N. Korea to be Removed from Terror List
Intelligence Community Reports Climate Change, Food Shortages Challenge to US Security

Growth of Al Qaeda Efforts Online
Iran to Get ICBMs Before Missile Shield is Deployed
Nuclear Security and Safety Standards Fall Short in Europe
Commentary: Winning the War of Ideas

UN Team to Inspect Nuclear Site in Syrian
EU Approves Economic Sanctions Against Iran
House Passes Bill, Increasing Government´s Eavesdropping Ability
Truce in Gaza
Islamism and Education in Algeria
Iran Reports Common Ground with Atomic Offer

Nice summary of recent developments on the torture front from Phillip Carter’s intelligence blog.
Oddly enough, I think we are missing a key issue in the discussion.  Much of the coverage of the torture issue has focused on the process by which it was authorized.  Much of the commentary has been either pro or against torture [...]

Crossposted from Huffington Post.
Many conservatives have developed a dangerous case of the Iraq Syndrome. Whereas the Vietnam Syndrome affected mostly people on the left and gave them an overly pessimistic view of American power, the Iraq Syndrome is equally dangerous in reducing most of America’s foreign policy problems to Iraq.
The latest example of the “Iraq [...]

Pew Finds World Opinion of US Slightly Improved
Commentary: Supreme Court Rules Against Lawlessness
Detention Plans Uncertain After Ruling
G8 Talks on Global Warming, Oil Prices

Mullen Says Stop Loss Will Continue
Israeli Cabinet Votes for Truce in Gaza
Afghanistan Seeks $50 Billion in Financial Assistance
Congressional Computers Targeted by Foreign Hackers
Top Secret Intelligence Files on Al Qaeda Left on UK Train
Commentary: Laura Bush Reports on Afghanistan
Commentary: Outsourcing Interrogation

ASP Senior Fellow Bernard Finel raises important question about the recent spate of optimistic assessments of progress in the “War on Terror” with a guest contribution today to the Washington Post’s PostGlobal blog.
You can read Bernard’s essay here.