Oscar Jr. Was Here

Weekend Reading

I'm still working on the Quantifying the Blogosphere post discussed below, and may have something up later tonight or tomorrow. Messy data.

In the meantime, the Weekly Standard has a two very thoughtful and mildly optimistic feature articles on the Iraq aftermath up: Why Iraq's Still a Hard Place by Tom Donnelly and The Beginning of a Beautiful Friendship? by Reuel Marc Gerecht. I recommend them both highly.

In addition, Stephen F. Hayes posts a follow-up on the Saddam-al Qaeda connection and an interesting piece on Iraqi spying in the U.S.

Good stuff, all of it. (Oscar Jr., the Weekly Standard's table of contents site, with no pop-up ad!)