Congressional Digest

Excerpt

Although the crisis in the financial sector became the focal
point of the 2008 presidential
election, international issues — including two America-led wars in the
Middle East —
have polarized the electorate and led to contentious disagreements
between the two
political parties. While the United States’ military operation in Iraq,
now in its sixth year,
is presiding over relative reductions in violence, the war in
Afghanistan, now entering its
eighth year, is growing more intense. There is a simmering conflict
between Russia and
Georgia, turmoil in global oil markets, a debate over global warming…