Obama's goal: End Iraq war, then win Mideast peace - Yahoo! News

Obama's goal: End Iraq war, then win Mideast peace - Yahoo! News

Firmly and finally ending the U.S. combat mission in Iraq, President Barack Obama will have but a moment before trying to hasten peace nearby between Israelis and Palestinians. Left unclear is whether winding down the war that inflamed Arab passions will do anything to help long-shot Mideast talks.

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2010-08-30       The Daily Brief     Robert Kuttner: Simpson's 'Tits' Are the Least of It AP Robert Kuttner: Given what is happening to the real economy in the real world, the prospect of a double-dip recession and the prospect of a lost decade of high unemployment, the idea that the bigger menace is Social Security is just whacko. Let's recall that Social Security is in surplus until 2037! Yet the idea that the road to recovery leads through cuts in Social Security, Medicare, and other social outlays that are keeping the depression from worsening, if anything, is gaining traction among opinion elites. Exhibit A is a doubly dishonest column by the New York Times' new whiz-kid pundit, Matt Bai, who used a liberal congressman, Earl Blumenauer of Oregon, as a prop to make his misleading case. Click here to read more. Harry Shearer: President Obama Speaks to New Orleans From Planet Zarg The President has left New Orleans now, once again, as last October, finding it inconvenient to spend more than a few hours here. Probably a good idea. He'll get a better night's sleep back on his home planet. Jeffrey Sachs: Moving Beyond Washington's Stale Economic Debate While the Obama economic strategy offers us continued stagnation and chronic budget deficits, the Republican strategy offers us a complete collapse of the federal government, and of course even more explosive deficits. Robert Reich: Why Cheaper Money Won't Mean More Jobs If Ben Bernanke and company make it even cheaper to borrow, they'll be unleashing a third corporate strategy for creating more profits but fewer jobs -- mergers and acquisitions. Lorelei Kelly: Beck-Palin 2010 Beck and Palin are like an all purpose high school gang: the quirky, sagacious Honor Society geek and the homecoming queen who claims the ROTC kids as backup. Interestingly, the ROTC kids are never present to deny the alliance. Ken Levine: 2010 Emmy Awards Roundup Lots of surprises this year, and as Emmy shows go, I thought this was a pretty good one. It was a nice balance between new blood and Betty White.     HuffPost News U.S. Military Loses Control Of Subcontractor Spending, Warlords Benefit Biden Visits Iraq To Mark Formal End To U.S. Combat Republicans In Top Tier Races Endorse Paul Ryan's Controversial Budget Plan Glenn Beck Regrets Calling Obama Racist: 'I Have A Big, Fat Mouth' (VIDEO) `Mad Men,' `Modern Family' win top Emmy Awards   Get HuffPost on your iPhone!   ©2010 HuffingtonPost.com, Inc. All rights reserved. 560 Broadway, Suite 308, NY, NY 10012 Add dailybrief@huffingtonpost.com to your address book to ensure that you receive emails from us. User Agreement Privacy Policy

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