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Pelosi, the highest-ranking woman in the history of American government, also discussed the importance of encouraging women to enter politics and spoke about the upcoming decision on increasing troop deployment to Afghanistan...
Rather than allowing himself to be drawn blindly into a quagmire, Obama is insisting on a clear-eyed view of the prospects for success and ultimately, withdrawal. And that's likely to confirm that even pursuing the most limited kind of success in Afghanistan might require an expanded troop commitment that goes well beyond the next U.S. presidential election...
...stands, no issue is as big a distraction from Obama's daily message as Afghanistan. At an evening press conference, Gibbs expressed frustration over one typical line of questioning - that the review of troop levels in Afghanistan is taking too long. "I'm tired," he said after a pause noting that he wanted to choose his words carefully. "This President is taking the time to get this decision right," Gibbs said. "We are closer after that meeting to getting to a strategy that everybody believes has an opportunity to being successful." He went on to criticize several news outlets...
...Clinton after the Oklahoma City bombing, of Ronald Reagan after the Challenger explosion. And every set piece is political, whether it should be or not, as we learned from the repeated observation that Obama's speech would be a sort of prelude to his awaited decision on strategy and troop levels in the Afghanistan...
...Simple truths are often the best. But even these, on television, come swimming now against a current of expectations: Is this line a signal about future troop levels? Is that paragraph a veiled play for bipartisan support on health care? Is the tone appropriately pastoral in this section and sufficiently martial in the next? TV's original power was its immediacy, its you-are-there quality. More and more, it seeks instead to mediate. A nation of citizens is invited to become a culture of critics...