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The article focuses on the test being faced by the relations between the U.S. and Pakistan after the death of terrorist Osama bin Laden. Liberal Democrat Jackie Speier of California says that the alliance of the U.S. with Pakistan depends on the latter's knowledge regarding the hideout of bin Laden. It also states that responses to questions on his hideout in a town in Pakistan could incite lawmakers to examine the economic and military aid that the U.S. gives to the country annually.

The article focuses on the opposition of Wisconsin Senator Russell Feingold to the plan of U.S. President Barack Obama to send an additional 30,000 troops into Afghanistan. Feingold believes that it is not right for lawmakers, who opposed the plans of former President George W. Bush to increase the number of troops in Iraq in 2007, to support the plan of Obama only for reasons of partisanship. He adds that adding more troops in Afghanistan makes the situation in Pakistan worse.