Don’t forget, Karzai is in town

The mutual antipathy has been evident and boiling over for months. What does
this portend for U.S involvement in Karzai’s Afghanistan? Our president’s
decision timetable calls for a beginning of withdrawal as early as the end of
this calendar year.

Who among us doesn’t think he’s already decided, regardless of the midterm
elections or other considerations, to cut and run? From our vantage point, how
can anything other than withdrawal be decided, given that the Taliban is
thriving, but still unincorporated into their government, and our military
effort continues apace but without purpose? This is not Iraq. And, Obama
doesn’t have the fortitude of George Bush.

George Bush’s nation-building in Iraq has produced a
fledgling democracy. One replete with many issues, yes, but a
democracy nonetheless. And, please don’t forget, Mr. Bush ended a great tyranny.

Without a doubt, our results there have outstripped President
Obama’s prospects in Afghanistan.

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