Afghanistan’s getting worse. Hamid Karzai blames Pakistan’s tolerance of disorder in the tribal areas.
The smart folks at DNI say that Iraq is a losing proposition, and staying the course out of blind perseverence will only get guys killed.
General McCaffrey basically endorses the ISG strategy of drawing down slowly, but he says advisors are a bad idea. He forgets to mention that all of his tactics are in the service of a nonexistent strategy.
Rumsfeld notices that in some parts of Iraq people aren’t being killed every day. What’s the big deal?
Bush proposed another strategy in December 2005, let’s not forget, and it was as vague and devoid of real strategic vision as the ISG’s.
Things are bad and getting worse, folks. And Bush has to take a great deal of the blame for his emphasis of an offensive campaign in Iraq, the consequent deemphasis of Afghanistan, insufficient troops in both conflicts, the embrace of stupid ideas about transformation and technology, our continuing failure to get tough on immigration and border at home, and his failure to change course as these various errors became apparent.
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