Afghanistan as the “Good War” has been providing cover for the left for the last five years. Listening to Obama’s strident assertions that Iraq has distracted the U.S. from the real war on AQ in Afghanistan, one can’t help but wonder how anyone can take this man seriously. To acknowledge Afghanistan is host to an enemy is to acknowledge the U.S. has mortal enemies that must be fought. As the Democrats have admitted on several occasions, AQ is present around the world… but they must only be fought in Afghanistan, and nowhere else, and certainly not in Iraq.

Obama’s cries for more durm and strang in Afghanistan are political rhetoric, and will be tossed aside eventually. The Good War will turn into a “quagmire/civil war/propping up corrupt dictatorship/U.S. imperialism” soon enough.