Photo of the day
This guy seems to have the right idea:
President Obama’s Afghanistan “surge”
As expected, the press has gotten advanced excerpts from President’ Obama’s upcoming speech on his plan for Afghanistan, which he will officially announce tonight in a televised address from West Point at 8 ET. CNN has snips from the speech, and the Guardian is liveblogging the unveiling of the plan and the media reports surrounding it.
Obama plans to announce troop decision on Afghanistan next week
McClatchy reports that the Commander in Chief of the US military has finally made a decision on whether or not to send more troops to Afghanistan, and will officially announce his decision next Tuesday (probably in a primetime address to the nation):
George and Laura Bush’s visit to Fort Hood
In the aftermath of last week’s horrifying attack on Fort Hood, which left 14 dead – including an unborn baby – former President George Bush and his wife Laura held a secret visit with those who were wounded in the attack, and their families. It wasn’t widely reported in the press … because that’s the way they wanted it:
Hugs, kisses, and major props to all of our veterans
Can’t add much more to this.
Could the Fort Hood terrorist attack have been prevented?
ABC News has a disturbing report on how intelligence agencies here in the US knew about Army Major Nidal Hasan’s electronic attempts at contacting Al Qaeda (via Memeorandum):