You can, of course, read that over at my day job. And I invite you to! But if you’d like to read some other stuff — which I don’t advise for the next 90 minutes but whatever — here’s some valuable stuff:

— Are Sipah-e-Sihaba attacking Pakistan’s Christians? (More on this later.)

— Andrew Exum picks through the best bits of Elizabeth Rubin’s apparently excellent Karzai profile.

— Elizabeth Rubin’s apparently excellent Karzai profile.

— Nathan Hodge reports that in Afghanistan the "civilian surge" is now the "civilian uplift."