Without a plan, perhaps. Only the fringe or the incompetent want us to evacuate promptly, i.e., to flee and advertise it as open once more to terrorists, with our tacit approval and implicit cowardice or surrender to them.

The difficulties are mainly two: resolving first the basic strategy, Afghanistan versus Pakistan, rather than air strikes versus a much bigger ground game (and even using the Afghan elections as a pretext for delay is subsidiary); second is placing Afghanistan into the bigger context of regaining control at home (despite the claims at the start of the thread, the main problem at home is the leftist trend this year by the Dems, which has repelled the public increasingly) and resolving health care “reform” as well as getting the Dems to be coherent and under self-control again. Obama faces multiple problems at once.

Last time I checked we had quite a few problems right here at home that were far from solved. Maybe we could focus on those for a change eh? Also:

“China, Russia and Al Qaeda all love the idea of America doing a long, slow bleed in Afghanistan. ~ TF”

No doubt.