As it turns out, there were about a dozen mostly-DC-think-tankers who didn’t just advise McChrystal’s 60-day strategy review, they were the review. Full list of those attendees is at now up the Washington Independent. Both Kagans are on it.  Surprise name, from my perspective: Terry Kelly from RAND, who labored mightily and unsuccessfully in 2004 in Iraq to try to disarm the militias for the CPA. Guy had his head in the right place — attempting to address the concealed instruments of repression held by the U.S.’s allies. I have my questions about the particular Afghanistan experience of some of the members of this group. But my conversations with Kelly left me convinced of his first-rate character and strategic thinking.

Integrity, "Hollow." The best song on the best record Victory Records ever put out. You heard what I said.