Earning It

You know, kind of like Kissinger, Arafat, and Gore did:

...President Barack Obama's administration is understood to have told the British government that it could announce, as early as next week, the substantial increase to its 65,000 troops already serving there.

The decision from Mr Obama comes after he considered a request from General Stanley McChrystal, the US commander in Afghanistan, to send tens of thousands of extra American troops to the country...

I am always impressed at how the average Brit on the street knows what the Amerikan guvmint's going to do a week before we do. Or before the main$tream, anyway.