The White House is now apparently looking at a "middle
path" approach in Afghanistan, adding some troops but not as many as
General Stanley McChrystal may want,
in what many insiders are now calling the "Goldilocks strategy," (not too big,
not too small, but just right).
Defense Secretary Robert
Gates
will go to Japan next week to meet with the new leaders there. On the
agenda will surely be the recent announcement by that government that they
will end their refueling mission in the Indian ocean.
Formerly "dead" terrorist Mohammad Ilyas Kashmiriapparently
gave an interview to the Pakistani press, calling into question the
reliability of those unmanned drone strikes that Vice President Joseph Biden is always
talking up.
Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton is coming back from Russia with no real agreements to tout, except
a vague
call for missile defense cooperation with Putin's government. Meanwhile,
Putin took the opportunity to
throw cold water on the idea of more Iran sanctions.
Britain and France are calling on Israel
to investigate the war crimes allegations in the Goldstone Report, which they
say they are doing, but which won't stop the Palestinian leadership from
pushing its renewed
call for tougher punishments.
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