Morning Bell: Going on the Offensive in Pakistan

Earlier this week, the New York Daily News caught the Barack Obama campaign purging their website of any evidence that Obama ever believed the surge in Iraq was not working. Obama’s new position on the surge is that there is an “improved security situation” in Iraq due to “testament to our military’s hard work, improved counterinsurgency tactics, and enormous sacrifice by our troops and military families.” Obama is right: the security situation in Iraq has improved. Unfortunately, the situation in Afghanistan has been deteriorating. Just this past week nine American soldiers were killed by Taliban militants at a U.S. base in Kunar Province bordering Pakistan. Obama recently told the Military Times his future policies in Iraq would be greatly determined “in consultation with General Petraeus and the other commanders on the... [read full story]