For a long time the Dog supported the war in Afghanistan. There are and were good reasons why we should make the effort to put some kind of functional government in place before leaving any nation where we removed the existing government by force. However, the time has come where it seems clear that we do not have the tools anymore to actually do this job, and so this war has lost the Dog. This is not quite where the president is on this issue.

Originally posted at Squarestate.net

Tonight we will be treated the spectacle of President Obama working to sell the best of the worst choices for Afghanistan. What we will see is a punt, of course. There are no good or easy choices here.

Perhaps if the Republicans were less insane there might be some way for us to begin a withdrawal in short order. Perhaps if we did not still have our war of choice winding down (but not quickly enough) in Iraq we might have the resources required to fight a long-term counter insurgency. Perhaps if the criminal Bush Administration had actually understood merely toppling a government is not winning a war, had understood that when you go to war to get a terrorist group and its leader, the failure to do so is actually losing.

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