Barack Obama's International Peace And Basketball Tour
John McCain's Iraq strategy took a blow this weekend; first on Friday George Bush agreed to a "general time horizon" for American troop withdrawal (NOT A TIMETABLE PEOPLE IT'S TOTALLY DIFFERENT) and then on SaturdayDer Spiegelran an interview with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki that seemed to back up Obama's 16 months-ish withdrawal schedule. The McCain people said, "Yeah well an interview with a magazine is not official policy." [ Politico ]
Barack Obama visited Afghanistan this weekend, and today he's in Basra and Baghdad. [ New York Times ]
Guess who didn't get a seat on Barack Obama's plane of international transcendence? Ryan Lizza, theNew Yorkerwriter whose profile was in the infamous "satirical cover" issue. [ Los Angeles Times ]
The surge worked. But will it hold? [ Washington Post ]
Some people are sad that their neighborhood Starbucks is closing. [ Wall Street Journal ]
South Africa, with the help of the UN, the African Union, and 14 southern African nations, is trying to broker a power-sharing agreement between rival factions in Zimbabwe. [ New York Times ]