The big news internationally today is President Obama, along with Gordon Brown and Nicholas Sarkozy, accusing Iran of building a secret underground facility to manufacture nuclear fuel.
What this means for the immediate future is uncertain; the U.S. was prepared to begin talks with Iran next Thursday. Do those talks continue now? Conservative critics will have a "told-you-so" field day, but short of going to war, what's the best strategy going forward?
For better or worse, the rest of the world looks to the President of the United States for answers. For many of us, we're happy it's Barack Obama who will be providing the answers in this case, and not George W. Bush. But as Joe Biden said during the general election campaign, crises are bound to happen that will test the mettle of this 47-year-old man.
Speaking of Obama, some interesting new poll numbers came out of the CBS News/NY Times poll released last night.
This article appears in Sep 2-8, 2009.