Am pretty unhappy about our (the U.S. ) open-ended military engagement in Afghanistan. Predict it’s going to be a boondoggle that will sink many domestic investment projects simply because there won’t be any money left over. Obama’s ridiculous statement that U.S. troops will start withdrawing from that country in Summer of 2011 is insincere, at best. During lunch break today I found this succinct analysis by Tom Engelhard laying out the ongoing surge in all its dimensions. The last sentence of that article reads:
“Whatever the Obama administration does in Afghanistan and Pakistan, however, the American ability to mount a sustained operation of this size in one of the most difficult places on the planet, when it can’t even mount a reasonable jobs program at home, remains a strange wonder of the world. “
Amen to that!
