Apparently to kill Osama bin Laden.  Of course he is probably already dead, but to admit that would be to spoil the party. Obama had to hang tough on Afghanistan so his policy on Iraq wouldn't make him seem wimpish in comparison to McCain.  Now he can start withdrawing from Iraq - even the client Iraqi Government wants them out - and redeploy some troops to Afghanistan.  

As soon as he can declare some kind of mission accomplished there he will withdraw from Afghanistan as well - for reasons of cost alone - if not for the utter strategic stupidity of it.  He will probably cut a deal with Pakistan to act as enforcer in the region, perhaps even with Iran.  He just needs to sort out a little local difficulty in Palestine and re: suspected nuclear weapons programs in the meantime.

The problem is Israel needs to keep the Palestinian conflict on the boil to keep the US fully engaged.  Never has a small nation more success fully led a much larger one around by the nose.  Whoever dreamt up Christian Zionism was a genius.  Not only did it solve the historic problem of Christian antisemitism, it effectively gave Israel control of US foreign policy.


Vote McCain for war without gain

ThatBritGuy:

Remind me - why are we in Afghanistan?

pashtun smack?

they don't have walmart yet?

they're mean to girls?

the taliban and warlords have too many guns and shit (we gave them to kick russki ass)?

and now they're kicking ours... (it's what afghans do)

~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~