From THE WEEKLY STANDARD: The Memorials We Deserve, by Jonathan V. Last. From the Wall Street Journal: Battling al Qaeda in Iraq, by Melik Kaylan. From the Washington Post: A Law Terrorism Outran, by Mike McConnell. From Human Events: Pelosi, Dems threaten a Vital U.S. Ally, by Robert J. Caldwell. From Middle East Quarterly: How Israel Bungled the Second Lebanon War, by Efraim Inbar. Bonus Audio File: How the Army’s New MRAPs Might Fare in the Field, with Nathan Hodge.

Lebanese tanks pounded the headquarters of a group with suspected links to al Qaeda in a Palestinian refugee camp near Tripoli Sunday after the northern city’s worst clashes in two decades killed 22 soldiers and 17 militants.