Just a year ago we were told that the world would be a better place as soon as George W. Bush was retired in Texas and the anointed one was inaugurated as President of the United States.
The Bush administration cooperated fully with an incoming administration that had shown nothing but contempt for everything it had done. The Bush administration had made a thorough policy review of Afghanistan which closely reflected the views of President Barack Obama's later hand-picked commander there, General Stanley McChrystal. President Obama, however, cannot decide whether to fish or cut bait. He is making us worry that Hillary Clinton's commercials about the 2:30 a.m. telephone call were right.
Oddly enough, he is making a similar mistake the Bush administration made in Iraq in 2005-06. President Bush's advisors were so concerned about casualties and public morale that they neglected to implement a counter-insurgency strategy for what had long been an insurgency. President Bush did not awake from his slumber until Nancy Pelosi was Speaker of the House.
James Shinn reports on what our options are in Afghanistan and discusses the common rumors circulated by wishful thinking.
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