Keep Your Friends Close and Your Competition Closer – A Cartoon

By Chip Bok - Obama’s Petraeus pick for Afghanistan is popular. Tunku Varadarajan thinks it was a masterstroke which will keep the general out of the 2012 presidential race.

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