We know where Sen. McCain stand on the war in Iraq; He is claiming that " the surge is working " and doesn't want any time frame for the US pull out until the " enemy is defeated ", and Iraq can function as a " stable democracy ". He wants to stay until the " job is done " ( whatever that means?) and he mentioned, in a speech, a few month ago  that  the " US could be in Iraq for  another 100 years ".

When Ben and I talked last week to Maj. Todd Schmidt about his proposal that the U.S. encourage Western-style education in the Muslim world -- part of winning the "war of ideas" in the war on terror -- there was one clear hitch: Would the Muslim world accept U.S. education efforts? Schmidt's response: The U.S. probably needs to keep its fingerprints off the program and work through international institutions.

This is bad:

This probably isn't good:

The Bush administration’s continued backing of President Pervez Musharraf, despite the overwhelming rejection of his party by voters this month, is fueling a new level of frustration in Pakistan with the United States.

Stanley Kurtz, whose essay on Pakistan in the latest Claremont Review of Books is a must-read, posts on some striking developments in the battle over the Taliban/Al-Qaida-controlled tribal region of Waziristan: