Live on Tape from Kabul

So the President very nearly met face-to-face with his hand-picked man-on-the-scene in Afghanistan:

Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the commander of American and allied forces in Afghanistan, presented his request for more troops directly to President Obama on Friday as the White House moved closer to settling on a new strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan.

General McChrystal discussed his proposal via a video feed from Kabul beamed into the Situation Room in the White House, where Mr. Obama gathered with his national security team.

I don’t want to sound too blasé, but I was more excited when I managed to use six hyphens in the single sentence linking to the story.