While Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama put John McCain -- the presumptive foreign-policy expert of the two -- further back on his heels by essentially
reaching an agreement with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki on a timetable for withdrawal of American troops from Iraq (see
aimai's post, below), McCain was burnishing his foreign-policy resumé:
Asked on ABC about the uptick in violence by Islamic extremists in Afghanistan, he replied: "We have a lot of work to do and I'm afraid it's a very hard struggle, particularly given the situation on the Iraq/Pakistan border."
Iraq borders several nations, but Pakistan is not among them...
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