Conventiently for the Grand Coalition, this debate is now also tearing apart the Greens. At the presently held party conference, the Realo-wing-dominated leadership brought in a motion for continued support of the Afghan mission, against loud protests. The base voted it down, and voted in an alternative motion for ending the mission instead.                                                                                            

I fear neither side truly comprehends the situation. The Realos, just like interventionist liberals elsewhere, see noble goals and ignore the issue of whether they are achievable with the means at disposal, and ther allies at hand. And I'm not sure that many on the opposed side really contemplate how much in a dire straits the country is, and will be even without Western meddling. (So in effect I think the base is naive yet demands the right move.)

_{*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.}