LT SMASH REPORTS that Al Qaeda is abandoning Afghanistan, and sees this as good for the war effort.

Meanwhile Adam Yoshida needs to take a chill pill. He writes:

Sometimes I think that the treason is so deeply ingrained in our society that nothing short of martial law, the suspension of habeas corpus, and the repeal of Posse Comitatus will do. Sometimes I think that we will need to think to the Revolution, where Tories and other traitors were dealt with harshly by a righteous people. I hope that I am wrong, but I do not deny the possibility.

That’s a terrible idea. I’d call it an unAmerican idea, but in fact we did things like this in the Civil War, and in World Wars I and II. But it’s wrong. Although the actual point of his post is to suggest less-drastic means of putting pressure on the anti-war movement (means that, in fact, remind me of things that the Left did in the 1960s and — just ask Al Sharpton — more recently than that) I’m utterly against that sort of thing. It’s wrong, and we don’t need it anyway. We’re winning this war.