We should have seen THIS coming!
Up until recently, it was OK to criticize the war in Iraq, as long as one was suitably hawkish (or at least not noticably dovish) about the war in Afghanistan- where, after all, we still have a bomber of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon to catch, and a region ripe to become- excuse the expression- a Mecca for Islamic terrorists to control. An Afghanistan back in the hands of the Taliban would be the equivalent of giving al Quaeda an entire nation to use as a base for training terrorists and from which to organize and launch their missions worldwide.
Even Barack Obama felt it necessary to wax hawkish on the war in Afghanistan. But now that the war in Iran is clearly in its endgame (at least as far as our involvement there is concerned), it should come as no surprise that the left is now moving its anti-war rhetoric to the theatre where even Mr. Obama realizes our security is at stake.
No, it really should be no surprise that TIME's reliably clueless Joe Klein now thinks that the war in Afghanistan is "pointless," and wonders why we don't show the white flag there as well as in Iraq.
Even Barack Obama felt it necessary to wax hawkish on the war in Afghanistan. But now that the war in Iran is clearly in its endgame (at least as far as our involvement there is concerned), it should come as no surprise that the left is now moving its anti-war rhetoric to the theatre where even Mr. Obama realizes our security is at stake.
No, it really should be no surprise that TIME's reliably clueless Joe Klein now thinks that the war in Afghanistan is "pointless," and wonders why we don't show the white flag there as well as in Iraq.
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