Good reading

Teflon Don over at Acute Politics has 5 Years, 1 year posted.

• We've been at war in Iraq for 5 long years now, with more long years to go (assuming, of course, that we don't pull out like naive teenagers). I wonder, though... who remembers (without looking!) when the war began in Afghanistan?
  
  Jules Crittenden has your roundup of blogger opinion and editorial opinion on the anniversary.
  
  It took5 years to research what a lot of those serving in Iraq already took prima facie, but Havard University social scientists believe there is a link between public criticism of the war and increases in violent insurgent attacks.