From the Philadelphia Inquirer: The numbers tell the story: The surge in Iraq is working, by Jonathan V. Last. From the Wall Street Journal ($): Tangling With the Taliban, by Matthew Kaminski. From the Independent: The Full Horror of the Junta’s Crackdown Revealed, by Rosalind Russell. From the New York Sun: What Comes Next, by Yuval Levin and Peter Wehner. From the Long War Journal: Taliban Parade Captured Pak Soldiers, by Bill Roggio.