Follow BeltwayBlips on TwitterEarly Test: Afghanistan? Pakistan? Iran?
Published 11/4/2008 at WSJ.com: Politics And Policy
It's time to add a post-election twist: Though the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign focused on Iraq, the new president's early foreign-policy tests are likely to come elsewhere. Specifically, in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran.
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