1. US Army counterinsurgency guru picks over some of the failures in Iraq. Play counterinsurgency bingo and see how many of the 10 most common strategic blunders the US made.

2. Mondoweiss: "The Goldstone mission saw the same persecution of Palestinians in Gaza as me." Read the UN mission's precis if you can't face the full 574-page report.

3. And the US response was?

4. Come to that, what about the British, who promised "appropriate action" if war crimes were committed.