ARTHUR CHRENKOFF posts another roundup of underreported news from Afghanistan.

A WHILE BACK, I noted Nick Schulz’s worry that in-flight wi-fi could benefit terrorists. Apparently, the feds are worried, too. I still think that on balance easier communications by passengers hurt terrorists more than they help.

ARNOLD KLING on terrorism lessons from 1870:

A lack of social capital, or what James Bennett calls “civil society,” means that the Muslim community’s circuits are overloaded. Like the Native Americans living in Montana in 1870, Muslims are confronted with too much change happening too quickly.

We live in a “can-do” society. If a terrorist group arose from within Western culture, after one or two atrocities it would be strangled by a myriad of networks, community organizations, and political entities capable of enforcing group norms.

Perhaps Muslim society cannot address radical terrorism with its existing institutional base. If so, then it will take time for new organizations to emerge within the Muslim world that are capable of effectively promulgating and enforcing prohibitions against terrorism.

Read the whole thing.

I GUESS this is another example of reporting what you expected to hear and not what was actually said, but it’s kind of embarrassing.

GATEWAY PUNDIT HAS A REPORT ON THE KYRGYZSTAN VOTE, with video. Things seem to have gone fairly well, but remember that democratization is a process, not an event.

Nathan Hamm at Registan has a roundup, too.

PLAME-O-RAMA: Tom Maguire is all over the latest developments, as is Mickey Kaus.

UPDATE: Courtesy of the Wall Street Journal folks, here’s a free-to-nonsubscribers link to their story on the subject.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Bill Quick: “Keep this building fiasco in mind whenever you are tempted to view Karl Rove as an invincible political genius.”