While Michelle and Barack dawdled over dinner marking their 17th wedding anniversary at the Blueduck Tavern restaurant last night, these were just two of the things happening elsewhere in the world:
Ten American troops were killed in two surprise attacks in Afghanistan that caused alarm in Nato’s US-led coalition.
“The attacks also came at a crucial juncture in the eight-year-old war, with President Obama soon to decide whether to accept a request by general Stanley McChrystal, the commander of the 100,000 strong US and NATO force in Afghanistan, for 40,000 extra troops, or to scale back the counter-insurgency operation and focus narrowly on crushing al-Qaeda.” (TimesOnline, Oct. 4, 2009).
In the western region of Indonesia, a country in which Barack Obama lived as Barry Soetoro, people were using their hands to dig up corpses in the aftermath of the massive 7.6 magnitude earthquake.