Article Tone

I think this article provided a lot of great information. Although there has been a lot of talk and analysis about Obama's new plan for troops in Afghanistan, very little has been said about the reactions from Afghanistan and Pakistan so far. I found this really interesting, especially when Obama addressed the Afghani people directly in his speech.

However, some things about this article seemed slightly more biased than usual. For example the first sentence on the front page of the website: "American diplomats scrambled to reassure the two countries at the center of President Obama’s war strategy that the U.S. would not cut and run." The use of the word scrambled seems a little unnecessary and biased to me. Thankfully this was fixed in the actual article and replaced with the word work.

The article had the tough job of analyzing a very subjective thing: the tone and feelings of the leaders and newspapers in Afghanistan. In my opinion they did a good job overall, but a couple of choice words worried me.