Update: Obama Lands in Afghanistan
Update: Break out the prayers.
Update: Who Obama will meet. At last, we'll have someone with intelligence assessing world relations.
Update: Big name anchors follow Obama overseas.
Update: USA Today dampens Obama's trip.
NYT: Mr. Obama, the presumptive Democratic nominee, will visit Jordan, Israel, Germany, France and the United Kingdom. On a separate trip, he is also planning to visit American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, but aides declined to disclose those details for security reasons.
It will be Mr. Obama’s second tour of Iraq and his fourth international trip since being elected to the United States Senate four years ago. His Republican rival, Senator John McCain of Arizona, has sought to make foreign policy experience a central issue in the presidential race and has criticized Mr. Obama for not visiting Iraq in more than two years.
The trip was announced today as Mr. Obama visited wounded American troops at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
