Obama's Failing? Afghanistan Edition

Thought of the day from John B:

There has been much breath-holding and nervous excitement as the Obama Administration considers General McChrystal’s request for 40,000 additional troops for Afghanistan.  Today word is leaking tout that instead of simply rubber stamping one of four options provided by the military the President wants a thorough analysis of what works and doesn’t about our current Afghan policy, possible scenarios for using our resources differently for better results, and a withdrawal strategy.  Considering the facts of steadily declining popularity for this war among Americans (under 50% now), high cost in money and lives, an extreme desire on the part of Afghans for us to leave, and results that have been almost nonexistent since removing the Taliban from Kabul almost 8 years ago and the wisdom of this approach is obvious.  The Washington press corps has naturally decided that this represents an extreme political risk for Obama.  That’s right, once again they’ve decided that one plus one equals the square root of two, or perhaps something else from this family http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irrational_number

.  Hey, David Frum said it, Fred Kagen said it, Rush said it, when have those guys ever been wrong?

Hit the nail on the head, as usual.  Once again Barack Obama's messed up but this time in Afghanistan despite the wisdom of such a thoughtful approach toward a high stakes war.

Thanks John!