The Left has more patience with Obama’s proposed Surge because Afghanistan really is about standing up a new democracy without the taint of “blood for oil”.

That certainly explains the readiness to abandon the new, albeit tainted, democracy in Iraq.

Of course it helps that all that oil plays no strategic role going forward and the arid mountains of Afghawazuristan do. It’s good to hear the Left is now suddenly so principled. I remember a time when for many on that side even Afghanistan was a suspect cause.