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...terms of paying for the packages, the president offered two major plans. The first was to increase taxes on those who make more than $250,000 a year. The second was to cut spending in Iraq. The two challenges to the success of those tactics depend on how many U.S. citizens who are rich become poor due to the recession and how much military effort will have to be switched to Afghanistan. It would be premature to make a forecast about either...
...such that Obama mostly avoided discussing the still troubling national-security situation. He announced the dispatch of 17,000 more troops to Afghanistan by press release. He has avoided any direct comment on the continued concern that Iran is close to developing its first nuclear weapon. The war in Iraq, which has thus far claimed the lives of 13 soldiers in February, has been put under review - but the President has resisted specific comments about plans to withdraw troops. Meanwhile, the military has continued - some would argue increased - regular remote-control missile attacks on suspected terrorists in the border region...
...explain how he views the ongoing international violence and shifting threats. Expect the President to combine a continued determination for victory against terrorist threats with a cautious explanation of the difficult challenges ahead. President Bush did himself great political harm by repeatedly offering rosy projections about the war in Iraq that later proved to be unfounded. Obama, who inherited Bush's military engagements, is not likely to repeat that mistake...
...What do you want to go to Iraq now for?" joked a journalist in New York. "It's all quiet...
...meetings that day, the city's electricity - or "Maliki power," as the residents call it after Iraq's increasingly powerful Prime Minister - occasionally went down. No one was ever surprised; we would continue talking in darkness until a generator started up. According to the Brookings Institution's Iraq Index, in January this year average Baghdadis were getting 13 hours of electricity per day, up from seven in 2008. A lot of statistics suggest that life in Iraq is improving - though, in the case of electricity, the same index estimated prewar levels to be 16 to 24 hours...