From the Wall Street Journal: Moving Forward in Iraq, by Kimberly Kagan. From Contentions: Letter from the Front, by Max Boot. From the Washington Post: Iraq: Go Deep or Get Out, by Stephen Biddle. From the Washington Times: U.S. Targets Iranian Aid to All Militants, by Sharon Behn. From the New York Post: The Forgotten Front, by Peter Brookes. Bonus Video: From National Review: Is Executive Power Bad? Peter Beinart vs. Jonah Goldberg.

A picture from April 8, 2006 which casts doubt on the F-16’s claim of first to kill an F-22, which was written up here yesterday.
From Alert 5: “This gun kill picture is from the HUD recorder of a VFA-11 Super Hornet taken during a Red Air exercise. The black box on the top left is an event marker to show that the trigger was squeezed.”