The we-have-one-President-at-a-time made what will probably be his final visit to Baghdad, and an Iraqi reporter threw shoes at him. Here’s the White House pool report: The president continued his press conference, noting the apologies of other Iraqi journalists in the front row and answering two questions, one from each side. For the record, the [...]
Sarah Chayes, who walks the walk–she lives in a Kandahar cooperative–talks the talk about what’s wrong with Afghanistan in today’s Washington Post. Her details of daily life in Kandahar are telling, and so is her conclusion: What I’ve witnessed in Kandahar since late 2002 has amounted to an invasion by proxy, with the Pakistani military once again [...]
