I think Obama’s love affair with a surge in Afghanistan will be a short lived one. It is just a variant of the old Cold War technological filibuster that the Democrats used to try to stop US military modernization. Once we are out of Iraq then Obama would declare Afghanistan a hopeless quagmire that we cannot win and then pull out. Surely he must know that if the Government of Pakistan objected to his plans to go after bin Laden in NW Pakistan alt they would have to do is stop the flow of supplies to our troops leaving them starving in the Afghan wastelands. You know what they say: “Amateurs talk tactics; Professionals talk logistics.