“As the Washington Post’s E. J. Dionne reminded the president, his supporters voted for him not to win a war but to win a victory on health care and other domestic issues. Obama’s priorities lie not in the Hindu Kush but in America: Why squander your presidency on trying to turn an economically moribund feudal backwater into a functioning nation state when you can turn a functioning nation state into an economically moribund feudal backwater?”
You can’t deny that is change.
Afghanistan seems to be same old, same old. What’s changed? Clearly, during the Bush years, we were tied down in Iraq. Aren’t we still? 120,000 troops there now, right? When they stand up, we stand down? Still waiting. How time flies. Hard to believe it’s going on 7 years now. Where’s old Paul Wolfowitz now? Where’s Rumsfeld? Not quite as cocky these days, I suspect.