Our Defense Secretary says that we’re losing in Afghanistan because we didn’t have enough troops, because we invaded Iraq!
This astonishingly acute perception of the obvious comes from a man who presided over several years of doing nothing about Afghanistan. Was he wrong then or is he wrong now?
But that’s Goingbackwardville, in Movingforwardville we’re busy weighing our options, none of which are good.
Meanwhile, our guy Karzai is poised for victory, and nobody outside of Kabul gives a damn, but we’re “rethinking” in light of electoral fraud!
It’s this kind of nonsense that keeps the war on terror going.
Rather than seeing terrorism as a very small bore threat, best overcome by a combination of law enforcement and a more serious commitment to economic development in backward lands, we’re trapped in the rhetoric of victimhood by a military that’s roughly two wars behind.
Gorilla says: “Why be afraid of these clowns? Nihilism has yet to win an election!”
