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...General David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, wanted to maintain the current force level through next June, but agreed to the modest troop reduction under pressure from Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. They are eager to divert additional troops to Afghanistan, which can only happen if troops are pulled out of Iraq. Petraeus will soon inherit responsibility for overseeing both Afghanistan and Iraq when he becomes head of U.S. Central Command...
...decades at the Agency, he has perfected the look and the attitude of a career spook. He wears a smart dark suit and that inevitable flourish of the house eccentric, a bow tie. Osborne's Olympian contempt for his superiors, his overcareful pronunciation of French words ("mem-wah"), the modest shock value of a Princeton man spicing every sentence with the f-word - all these mark him as hailing from that generation and class of American spies who considered themselves more knowledgeable, hard-thinking and highly pedigreed than the politicians they worked for, yet who managed to miss the collapse...
...governor's house is actually somewhat modest: a two-story wood shingled building with a couple hundred meters of road leading up to it. There are a few aging trucks parked on the grass alongside the road, alongside a couple trailers and a shack. There's a portable basketball hoop in the driveway. You can tell it's the governor's home because they've tacked a moose antler with PALIN painted on it to a tree out front...
...Cutting spending now to reduce the budget deficit will only make a recession worse. This does not mean Tokyo should return to its failed policies of the 1990s by spending freely on wasteful construction projects and subsidies to special-interest groups. It means only that the government should accept modest deterioration of its balance sheet during an economic downturn...
...many ways these are Obama's last training days before the prizefight. The events - which have progressed west from Eau Claire, Wis., to Davenport, Iowa, and Kansas City, Mo., and move on to Billings, Mont., tomorrow - are modest affairs in which he can test messages and attacks on his opponent, John McCain. And his increasingly wonky, detailed tone is one he says audiences should expect to hear at the convention. "People know that I can give the kind of speech that I gave four years ago," Obama says. "They're more interested in what am I going...